Music Room, North Wall, Fenway Court

primary Thomas E. Marr and Son (active Boston, 1910-1942)

photographer Arthur E. Marr (American, 1877 - 1954)

Date1914

Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America

MediumGelatin silver print

Dimensions19.84 x 24.61 cm (7 13/16 x 9 11/16 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberARC.Marr.19307.b.1

eMuseum ID724565

EmbARK ObjectID24535

TMS Source ID8983

Last Updated8/9/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner’s museum originally featured a two-story concert hall known as the Music Room. Gardner hosted a range of public and private performances within the Music Room for over a decade. When her collection had grown beyond what the galleries could hold, she demolished the Music Room in order to expand exhibition space creating the Spanish Cloister, Chinese Loggia, and Tapestry Room. Before it was taken down, she asked the firm of Thomas E. Marr and Son—who had been documenting the spaces of her museum from their inception—to photograph the room for posterity.

MarksNotesInscribed in glass plate negative (lower left of print): 19307
Signed in glass plate negative (lower right of print): T.E. Marr & Son (c)

ProvenanceNotesCommissioned by Isabella Stewart Gardner, Boston in 1914.