Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Arabat-el-Madfina
correspondent
Thomas Whittemore
(Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1871 - 1950, Washington, DC)
Date15 January 1914
Place MadeUnited States, North America
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions20.2 x 26.5 cm (7 15/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.005818
eMuseum ID727610
EmbARK ObjectID24940
Other NumberU3w553
TMS Source ID9146
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryAs a specialist in Byzantine art, Thomas Whittemore traveled extensively throughout Eastern Europe and sent this letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Bulgaria. In a moving tribute to their mutual friend Okakura Kakuzo, a renowned scholar of Japanese art who had recently passed away, Whittemore writes that he has “often burned candles for you & him at the beautiful shrines of Bulgaria that we together may still go on, led as before by him across frontiers.”
MarksNotesInscribed in pencil (lower left): [Thomas Whittemore]
