North Cloister
photographer
Thomas E. Marr
(Canadian-American, 1849 - 1910)
Date1902
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumGlass plate negative
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.Marr.5390.a
eMuseum ID716775
EmbARK ObjectID26425
TMS Source ID10187
Last Updated11/13/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella worked with the Boston photographic firm Thomas E. Marr & Son, comprised of Thomas and his son Arthur, to document the museum's interiors. You can often see in these photographs Isabella's different iterations of the galleries from the museum's opening in 1903 to her death in 1924. In this view, a mirror at the end of the North Cloister conceals the Music Room where Isabella regularly hosted concerts. She reconfigured the Music Room in 1915 to create the Chinese Loggia, Spanish Cloister, Spanish Chapel, and Tapestry Room.
MarksNotesSigned (lower right): T. E. Marr (c)
Inscribed (lower left): 5390
Inscribed (lower left): 5390
ProvenanceNotesCommissioned by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Boston photographic firm, Thomas E. Marr and Son in 1902.
