Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Veronese Room Lace Case https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/
isabellas-lace
Charlestown Navy Yard Visitor Center
Navy Yard’s Ropewalk
https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/
2016/10/21/ropemakers-navy-part-ii/
Art of the Americas, 18th-Century Arts, Gallery 132
Who is Missing?
Caption: Colonial portraits were more aspirational than documentary-painters wanted to show off their skills rendering the shimmer of a satin dress or the softness of a curl of hair, and sitters wanted to appear confident, worldly, and beautifully dressed, regardless of how they actually looked. Especially for wealthy white elites, portraits marked significant events like marriages, soliditied relationships between families, and projected their ideas of prosperity and power. This empty picture frame represents the many people in the Revolutionary period who were never painted — or heroized — in oil on canvas.
Perhaps the people missing from this picture could not afford to commission a portrait, or perhaps they conveyed their values through different art forms. Should we see here the face of Crispus Attucks, the sailor of African and Natick Indian descent who became the first Patriot to die in the war? Or perhaps Phillis Wheatley, the young West African woman enslaved in Boston who became an internationally acclaimed poet, should be shown at her writing desk? There is no portrait of Sachem Solomon Uhhaunaunaunmut ("King Solomon"), who led Stockbridge Mohican soldiers against British forces in early Revolutionary battles. Who else is missing? Elizabeth Freeman, whose lawsuit for freedom led the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to outlaw slavery in 1781? Who do you want to see?
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The First Piece of a Museum
When [the] Museum was complete, Isabella installed this painting in the Dutch Room. Rembrandt’s Self Portrait was not only a cornerstone of this space, but fundamental to her entire conception of the Museum. According to Morris Carter, the Museum’s first Director, this was the first painting Isabella had purchased with “the intention of developing a real museum collection.”
In the early hours of March 18, 1990, the Gardner Museum experienced the single largest property theft in the world when 13 works of art were stolen. The best known were taken from the Dutch Room.
The First Piece of a Museum
When [the] Museum was complete, Isabella installed this painting in the Dutch Room. Rembrandt’s Self Portrait was not only a cornerstone of this space, but fundamental to her entire conception of the Museum. According to Morris Carter, the Museum’s first Director, this was the first painting Isabella had purchased with “the intention of developing a real museum collection.”
In the early hours of March 18, 1990, the Gardner Museum experienced the single largest property theft in the world when 13 works of art were stolen. The best known were taken from the Dutch Room.
https://www.gardnermuseum.org/about/theft-story
Brattle Book Shop
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Harvard Art Museums
Stele with Bodhisattva and Two Attendants, early 2nd century, India
https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/
object/200403
Bodhisattvas in Indian art are sometimes depicted wearing light and thin garments, a reflection of the warmer climate across many parts of India.
Mrs. James Warren (Mercy Otis), about 1763, Americas
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/32409
Woman’s Robe with Floral Decor, late 19th century, China
https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/214666
Japanese Garden, Tenshin-en
Yayoi Kusama: LOVE IS CALLING
Massachusetts Historical Society
Harvard Art Museums
Head from a Column Support
in the Form of a Crouching Winged Beast,
Northern Qi, 550-577;
from central pillar of North Cave,
northern Xiangtangshan Caves,
Wu'an, Hebei province.
https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/209204
Courtyard
The original cave of the sculpture
is as expansive as this entire building.
is as expansive as this entire building.
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