The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Summary:
Letters, business records, diary, and photographs.
Citation:
Isabella Stewart Gardner papers, 1760-1956. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
35mm microfilm reels 380-413, 631-632, 696-698, and 846 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Location of Originals:
Originals in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Mass.
Loan:
Loan
Biography Note:
Isabella Stewart Gardner was an art patron, collector, and museum founder in Boston, Mass. Immediately after graduation from Harvard, Bernard Berenson was hired by Gardner to travel throughout Italy collecting Italian Renaissance art for her recreated Venetian palazzo in Boston. She established her palazzo as a museum of fine European art with stipulations that after her death none of the exhibited works was to be moved or rearranged, but left as she had designed during her lifetime.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
Microfilm lent by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for duplicating, 1972-1975.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Topic:
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Massachusetts -- Boston Search this
Art, Renaissance -- Massachusetts -- Boston Search this
