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Garden of Poppies

artist John Appleton Brown (Massachusetts, 1844 - 1902, New York)

Dateabout 1891

Place MadeUnited States, North America

MediumPastel on buff paper

Dimensions55 x 44 cm (21 5/8 x 17 5/16 in.)

ClassificationsDrawings

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberP1s1

eMuseum ID719147

EmbARK ObjectID10812

TMS Source ID79

Last Updated8/9/24

Status

Not on view

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BibliographyNotesCatalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 1. (called "Celia Thaxter's Garden at Isles of Shoals")
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 79.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 18.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 49, ill.
Hilliard Goldfarb and Erica Hirshler. Dennis Miller Bunker and His Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1995), pp. 34-35, 62, no. 15.

MarksNotesInscribed (lower right) J. Appleton Brown
Inscribed (on a label affixed to the frame): Doll & Richards B2807

ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the gallery Doll & Richards, Boston on 16 December 1891 for $175.