Dec 3, 2023 · This exhibit, titled “Inventing Isabella,” was about the museum's enigmatic namesake herself. After reading the wall panel outside the Hostetter ...

Combined with select examples of her clothing and jewelry, we see how Isabella fashioned herself and entered long and intricate collaborations with artists to ...

Available now, Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life is the first biography of our remarkable founder produced by the Museum in nearly a century. ABOUT THE BOOK.

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Gardner moved into the private fourth-floor living quarters and devoted herself to personally arranging works of art in the galleries on the first three floors.

Nov 30, 2023 · John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925), Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1888. Oil on canvas, 190 x 80 cm (74 13/16 x 31 1/2 in.).

Over the next 20 years, Isabella Stewart Gardner filled her museum with visual and performing artists; she organized concerts, lectures, and exhibitions, and ...