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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner and Friends on the Terrace at Red Roof, Gloucester, Massachusetts
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Isabella Stewart Gardner and Friends on the Terrace at Red Roof, Gloucester, Massachusetts

primary (active Boston, 1910-1942)
subject (New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)
subject (La Porte, Indiana, 1873 - 1936, Gloucester, Massachusetts)
subject (Yokohama, 1862 - 1913, Akakura)
subject (Belvidere Plantation, South Carolina, 1860 - 1949)
subject (Boston, 1878 - 1934, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Date6 October 1910
Place MadeGloucester, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions19.3 x 24.2 cm (7 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.008524
eMuseum ID730183
EmbARK ObjectID34275
TMS Source ID17734
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web Commentary
In this photograph, Isabella Stewart Gardner sits with friends on the terrace of Red Roof, a home in Gloucester, Massachusetts belonging to A. Piatt Andrew (1873–1936), an economist and future congressman. Andrew and his neighbors made up a lively and creative community, and they embraced Isabella (as well as her friends such as art historian and curator, Okakura Kakuzo, pictured in the front row) as an honorary member. 

BibliographyNotesAurora Daniel, "Henry Davis Sleeper and a Glass Mosaic," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 8 June 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/henry-davis-sleeper-and-glass-mosaic
Alex Eliopoulos, "Isabella and Okakura Kakuzō's Impactful Friendship," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 10 May 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/isabella-and-okakura-kakuzos-impactful-friendship
MarksNotesSigned (in image, lower right): T.E. Marr and Son
Inscribed (in image, lower left): 17132
Inscribed in pencil (verso, top): A. Piatt Andrew, Mrs. Gardner / Okakura, Miss Sinkler, Henry Sleeper / at Andrews' house in Gloucester

ProvenanceNotesGift of Andrew L. Gray, a grandnephew of A. Piatt Andrew (1873 - 1936), to the archives of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the 1970s.