Close Up Sargent On Location
Simultaneously, in the Museum's Fenway Gallery, we will exhibit archival material related to Sargent's use of the Gothic Room as a studio. Other items highlight the friendship of the two, highly accomplished Gilded Age women鈥擨sabella and Gretchen鈥攊ncluding a book of Gretchen's poetry and a book of autographs paying tribute to Isabella's "priceless museum for refreshment and education."
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Simultaneously, in the Museum's Fenway Gallery, we will exhibit archival material related to Sargent's use of the Gothic Room as a studio. Other items highlight the friendship of the two, highly accomplished Gilded Age women鈥擨sabella and Gretchen鈥攊ncluding a book of Gretchen's poetry and a book of autographs paying tribute to Isabella's "priceless museum for refreshment and education."
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Just after Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Museum in 1903, she invited John Singer Sargent, a celebrated painter and close friend, to live and work in her Museum, making him the Museum鈥檚 first Artist-in-Residence.
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