Letters, business records, diary, and photographs.
REEL 380-413: Primarily correspondence, mostly Gardner's own, but including family correspondence and Gardner Museum correspondence.
REELS 631-632: Personal papers of Gardner and some records of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum including dealers' files containing invoices, notes, cancelled checks, and letters; a record book, "Prices Paid for Paintings," 1917; a record book, "Prices Paid for Works of Art"; 118 installation photographs of the museum as arranged by Gardner, 1924; a diary kept in Egypt, 1874, with sketches; a diary kept in Shanghai and India, 1883-1884; "Directions for my funeral," 1912; and "Suggestions for Running a Museum," 1913.
REELS 696-698: Letters from Bernard Berenson to Gardner, 1887-1924. Letters contain references to literary topics, Berenson's impressions of Europe, various paintings and artists, advice to Gardner on the purchase of paintings and information on their sale.
REEL 846: Checklist of Gardner's letters to Bernard and Mary Berenson, 1894-1924; typescripts of personal and official correspondence (originals found on AAA microfilm reels 696-698), 1887-1924.
Biographical / Historical:
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.
Provenance:
Microfilm lent by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for duplicating, 1972-1975.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Occupation:
Art patrons -- Massachusetts -- Boston Search this
Topic:
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Massachusetts -- Boston Search this
Art, Renaissance -- Massachusetts -- Boston Search this
La peinture polonaise du XVIe au début du XXe siècle : catalogue / [élaboré sous la rédaction de Krystyna Sroczyńska ... et al. ; traduit du polonais par Maria Cieszewska]
Author:
Galeria Sztuki Polskiej (Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie) Search this
Venetian paintings of the 15th & 16th centuries; loan exhibition, April 11 through April 30, 1938, at the galleries of M. Knoedler and Company, New York
Thomas Carr Howe. Unidentified G.I. holding a painting of the Madonna and child, at Altaussee, Austria, 1945. Thomas Carr Howe papers, 1932-1984. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Reproduction of the Master of Cappenberg's painting Adoration of the Magi
Type:
Photographs
Date:
circa 1945
Citation:
Reproduction of the Master of Cappenberg's painting Adoration of the Magi, circa 1945. Thomas Carr Howe papers, 1932-1984. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Schaeffer Galleries (New York, N.Y.). Reproduction of Piero di Cosimo's circa 1490 painting Vulcan and Aeolus as teachers of mankind, 1938?. Schaeffer Galleries records, circa 1921-1982. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Reproduction of Botticelli's painting The birth of Venus
Type:
Printed Materials
Date:
circa 1988-2001
Citation:
Reproduction of Botticelli's painting The birth of Venus, circa 1988-2001. William E. L. Bunn papers, 1863-2009. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Katalog der deutschen Gemälde von 1550 bis 1800 im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum und im öffentlichen Besitz der Stadt Köln mit Ausnahme des Kölnischen Stadtmuseums. Von. Ursula Erichsen-Firle und Horst Vey
Italian paintings; a catalogue of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Florentine school [by] Federico Zeri, with the assistance of Elizabeth E. Gardner
Author:
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Search this
Early Italian paintings : approaches to conservation : proceedings of a symposium at the Yale University Art Gallery, April 2002 / edited by Patricia Sherwin Garland
A history of painting in north Italy : Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ferrara, Milan, Friuli, Brescia : from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century ... / by J.A. Crowe & G.B. Cavalcaselle ... ; in two volumes ; with illustrations
