Design for the Courtyard of Fenway Court
artist
Willard Thomas Sears
(New Bedford, 1837 - 1920, Boston)
Date1900
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumPencil and watercolor on wove paper
Dimensions61.6 x 99.7 cm (24 1/4 x 39 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP33s57
eMuseum ID720058
EmbARK ObjectID23052
TMS Source ID8308
Last Updated10/30/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryArchitect Willard T. Sears worked with Isabella Stewart Gardner to build her museum, which she called Fenway Court, between 1899 and 1901. This concept drawing is one of a series that Gardner kept after the project’s completion.
BibliographyNotesGiovanna De Appolonia. "A Venetian Courtyard in Boston" in Elizabeth Anne McCauley et. al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2004), pp. 186-87, fig. 135.
Cynthia Saltzman. Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures (New York: Penguin Books, 2008), p. 83.
Alex Eliopoulos, "From Venice to the Fenway: Architecturual Elements in the Courtyard," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 6 April 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/venice-fenway-architectural-elements-courtyard
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), p.6, ill.
Cynthia Saltzman. Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures (New York: Penguin Books, 2008), p. 83.
Alex Eliopoulos, "From Venice to the Fenway: Architecturual Elements in the Courtyard," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 6 April 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/venice-fenway-architectural-elements-courtyard
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), p.6, ill.
ProvenanceNotesCommissioned from Willard T. Sears by Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1900.
