Nasturtiums at Fenway Court
painter
Arthur Pope
(Cleveland, 1880 - 1974, Westport, Massachusetts)
Date1919
Place MadeUnited States, North America
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensionscanvas: 17 11/16 x 7 7/8 in. (45 x 20 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP11s26
eMuseum ID722693
EmbARK ObjectID10858
TMS Source ID125
Last Updated10/19/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryOn one of his visits to the Museum, Arthur Pope, a color theorist and professor of art at Harvard University, painted the annual spring display of bright orange flowering nasturtium vines. Isabella grew the plants at her home Green Hill, in Brookline, Massachusetts and hung them in the Courtyard around her birthday, April 14, a tradition which continues today.
BibliographyNotesMorris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), p. 225.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 273-74. (as 1919)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 67. (as 1919)
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 15 (13 Dec. 1964), p. 2.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 188, ill. (as about 1919)
Elizabeth Reluga, "One Hundred Years of Nasturtiums: Arthur Pope and James Prosek," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 31 March 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/one-hundred-years-nasturtiums
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 273-74. (as 1919)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 67. (as 1919)
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 15 (13 Dec. 1964), p. 2.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 188, ill. (as about 1919)
Elizabeth Reluga, "One Hundred Years of Nasturtiums: Arthur Pope and James Prosek," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 31 March 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/one-hundred-years-nasturtiums
Jenny Pore, "The Elevation of the Nasturtium: From Plate to Palace Garden," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 9 March 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/elevation-nasturtium-plate-palace-garden
ProvenanceNotesGift from the painter and original Gardner Museum trustee Arthur Pope to Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1919.
