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A. Piatt Andrew and Isabella Stewart Gardner, Gloucester, Massachusetts

photographer Thomas E. Marr (Canadian-American, 1849 - 1910)

subject Isabella Stewart Gardner (New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)

subject A. Piatt Andrew (La Porte, Indiana, 1873 - 1936, Gloucester, Massachusetts)

Date6 October 1910

Place MadeGloucester, Massachusetts, United States, North America

MediumGelatin silver print

Dimensions19.4 x 24.3 cm (7 5/8 x 9 9/16 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberARC.008519

eMuseum ID725112

EmbARK ObjectID34270

TMS Source ID17729

Last Updated11/23/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryThomas Marr took this photograph of Isabella Stewart Gardner with her good friend A. Piatt Andrew on the terrace at his home called Red Roof on Gloucester’s Eastern point, where Andrew was the center of a lively and creative group of friends. After her first visit to the community, Isabella wrote, “Your village is Fogland with the sea’s white arms about you all. Don’t let others crawl in – Only me! For I care. I love its rich, strange people, so far away…”

BibliographyNotes

Elizabeth Reluga, "Summer Vacation in Gloucester," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 23 June 2020, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/summer-vacation-gloucester
R. Tripp Evans, "A Piatt Andrew, the 'A' to Mrs. Gardner's 'Y,'" Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 June 2024, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/piatt-andrew-mrs-gardners-y

MarksNotesInscribed in ink (lower left): 17131
Inscribed in ink (lower right): T.E. Marr & Son

ProvenanceNotesProbably commissioned by Isabella Stewart Gardner from photographer Thomas E. Marr on 6 October 1910.