All Except St. Nicolas
Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller & John Singer Sargent
$45.00
Winner of the 2020 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award from
The Art Libraries Society of North America
In 1916, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) met Thomas Eugene McKeller (1890-1962) a young African American elevator attendant at Boston’s Hotel Vendome. McKeller became the principal model for Sargent’s murals in the new wing of the Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, among the painter’s most ambitious works. Sargent’s nude studies and sketches from this project attest to a close collaboration between the two men that unfolded over nearly ten years. Featuring drawings given by Sargent to Isabella Stewart Gardner and published in full for the first time, a portrait of McKeller, and archival materials reconstructing his life and relationship with Sargent, this book opens new avenues into artist-model relationships and transforms our understanding of Sargent’s iconic American paintings. Essays offer the first biography of Thomas McKeller and a window into African American life in early 20th century Roxbury. They address the artist’s sexuality, his models, and consider questions of race and gender.
224 pages
Published by Yale Press, 2020
Hardcover
9 x 12 inches
Titian: Love, Desire, Death
$40.00
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Guide
$24.95
The authors look at masterpieces by Botticelli, Rembrandt, Titian, and others, as well as hidden treasures, including decorative arts, correspondence, and photographs. Rather than positioning the museum simply as a historical gem, they present it as a site for forging connections between past and present and reinforcing the founder’s legacy of sustaining contemporary art, music, and education. Featuring all-new photography, the book captures the uniqueness of this museum, helping us consider anew what the museum meant in Gardner’s time and what it means in ours.
By Dr. Christina M. Nielsen, previous William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (2014-2018), with Nathaniel Silver, previous William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (2018-2022), and Casey Riley, former Curator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
205 pages
Published by Yale University Press, 2017
Paperback
Measures 6.5" x 0.8" x 10"
Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life
$24.95
Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924) assembled an extraordinary collection of art from diverse cultures and eras—and built a Venetian-style palazzo in Boston to share these exquisite treasures with the world. But her life and work remains shrouded in myth. Separating fiction and fact, this book paints an unforgettable portrait of Gardner, drawing on her substantial personal archive and including previously unpublished findings to offer new perspectives on her life and her construction of identity.
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald shed new light on Gardner’s connections to minority communities in Boston, her views on suffrage and other issues of the day, the sources of her and her husband’s wealth, and her ties to politicians, writers, and artists. What emerges is a multifaceted portrait of a trailblazing collector and patron of the arts—from Italian Renaissance paintings to Chinese antiquities—who built a museum unprecedented in its curatorial vision.
Beautifully illustrated, this book challenges any portrayal of Gardner as a straightforward feminist hero, revealing instead an exceptional, complex woman who created a legendary museum and played a vibrant and influential role in the art world.
By Nathaniel Silver, Associate Director and Chief Curator, and Diana Seave Greenwald, current William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Collection
112 pages
Published by Princeton University Press, 2022
6.25 x 9.75 in.
Mrs. Jack: A Biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner
$10.95
An in-depth biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner of Boston, via New York, in the 19th century. An American charmer and art collector, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her husband Jack kept company with many leading cultural figures of the day including Henry James, John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler.
By Louise Hall Tharp
408 pages
Reprinted by CS Graphics, 2016
Paperback
8 x 6 inches
Gardner Quote Canvas Tote
$21.95
Go green Gardner style with this marvelous canvas quote, featuring Mrs. Gardner's favored nasturtium flowers. In a letter to Bernard Berenson, Mrs. Gardner referenced the flora growing at the Gardner’s Brookline estate Green Hill, which Jack Gardner inherited from his father in 1884. Here, Mrs. Gardner continued to cultivate her lifelong love of horticulture. The spirit of Mrs. Gardner’s passion for plants blooms perennially in the Courtyard and throughout her Museum.
11 x 18 inches with an 11 inch drop
Titian's Rape of Europa
$25.00
Dubbed “a mighty poet” by American author Henry James, Titian remains one of the most celebrated painters in Western art. Since his death in 1576, the artist’s reputation has never waned. In Gilded Age America, Titian paintings became the peerless prizes of leading collectors and quickly rose to the top of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s wish list. In 1896, she landed his masterpiece, The Rape of Europa. It became the sole example of his celebrated cycle of poesie outside of Europe, inspired an entire gallery in her newly built museum, and contributed to England’s national outcry over the loss of its art treasures. This book – the first dedicated to Europa – tells the painting’s story in Gardner’s time, in Titian’s, and offers rare insights into the artist’s virtuoso technique.
Published here for the first time, dramatically enlarged details of the composition demonstrate Titian’s deft touch and dazzlingly technical accomplishment. These bravura passages recently revealed by the painting’s comprehensive cleaning – the first since its arrival in America – are accompanied by commentary from the conservator, Gianfranco Pocobene, who returned Europa to its original glory.
This book accompanies the Gardner Museum exhibition, Titian: Women, Myth, and Power, reuniting his poesie series in the United States for the first time. Gift at the Gardner also carries a hardcover title, Titian: Love, Desire, Death, which is the National Gallery’s exhibition catalog for the same suite of paintings.
Edited by Nathaniel Silver, previous William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (2018-2022)
80 pages
Published by Paul Holberton Publishing, 2020
Paperback
Measures 9.3" x 7.6"
Stolen
$24.95
For the first time, The Gardner Museum has authorized a book on the daring theft from the Museum of 13 priceless works of art, including 3 Rembrandts and Vermeer’s The Concert, together worth over $500 million.
In 1903, Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her extraordinary museum, modeled after a Venetian palazzo, for the "enjoyment and education of the public forever." She had amassed an impressive collection including some of the finest masterpieces by Rembrandt, Titian, Raphael, and Botticelli, as well as works by her contemporaries such as Sargent, Whistler, and Degas. The art works included paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, furniture, ceramics, glassware, books, manuscripts and ephemera―all but 13 of which remain in place today.
In the early morning hours of March 18th, 1990, two thieves disguised as police officers talked their way into the museum, and tied up the night guards. They cut some of the paintings from their frames and stacked up others to take, leaving behind a priceless Rembrandt leaning against a chest. It is believed that the thieves “came for the Rembrandts”― but they also stole works by Vermeer, Degas, Manet, and Flinck, as well as a Chinese beaker and a Napoleonic eagle finial. Eighty-one minutes later, they were gone.
Stolen gives an inside look at the robbery and explores the impact of the missing works with commentary from the Museum’s Director, Curators, and the Chief Investigator. They describe how the theft, often called a crime against humanity, has affected visitors and disrupted Isabella Stewart Gardner's careful arrangement of the works. The book is highly visual, with original photographs of the stolen objects, as well as how they originally looked placed in the galleries. Stolen, the only book on the theft commissioned by the Gardner Museum, provides the context to a brazen heist that left one of the world’s great museums in search of its lost masterpieces.
The Museum is offering $10 million for safe return of all the works; the crime remains the largest unsolved art theft in history.
Learn even more about the art on WBUR's podcast Last Seen.
By Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum37 pages
Published by Applewood Books, 2018
Hardcover
10.5 x 8.5 inches
Nasturtium Seed Packet
$10.00
With our nasturtium seed packet, anyone can grow the very same variety of flowers that are cultivated during our annual tradition of hanging colorful displays of nasturtium vines. Contained in this packet are 30 nasturtium seeds, hand packed in the Museum. Each packet contains instructions for these easy-to-grow seeds.
Season: Annuals
USDA Zones: 3 - 10
Vining height measures 60"
Bloom season: Mid-summer through fall
Environment: Full Sun
Deer Resistant: Yes
The Secret Language of Flowers: Notes on the Hidden Meanings of Flowers in Art
$36.00
During his 2012 residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel (born 1964) delved into the archives of the magnificent garden that Isabella Stewart Gardner cultivated around her residence.Othoniel examined the Museum and photographed the flowers in the tapestries, ironwork, architecture, furnishings and paintings, in such masterpieces as van Dyck's Portrait of a Woman with its innocuous rose, Piermatteo d'Amelia's Annunciation with its majestic lily and Bartolomé Bermejo's Saint Engracia with its enigmatic palm.
This gift-worthy volume presents his art-historical ABC of these flowers, from Acanthus to Zea Mays.
By Jean-Michel Othoniel
192 pages
Published by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2015
Hardcover
5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
Courtyard Puzzle
$26.00
Take home a piece of Isabella's Courtyard with this puzzle!
This 300 piece puzzle features the Fenway Courtyard with its annual nasturtium display. The puzzle comes in a paperboard box so you can safely store your puzzle.
Photograph by Clements & Howcroft, 2009
Puzzle measure 11 x 17 inches
300 pieces
Courtyard Note Card Set
$24.95
Throughout the year, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's always-blooming Courtyard is transformed through a series of nine dramatic seasonal displays that reflect Isabella's passion for gardens as well as the skill and dedication of the Museum's horticulture staff.
From orchids to nasturtiums to Japanese-style chrysanthemums, there's always something new to discover thanks to the changing season and the rotation of plants. Most of the plants used for the Courtyard are grown in the Museum's temperature-controlled Hingham greenhouses and trucked to the Palace location where they are rotated in order to keep the displays in pea condition.
This set of eight note cards with envelopes showcases different views of our lush Courtyard.
6.25 x 4.75 inches box
Courtyard Magnet
$6.00
Take home a piece of Isabella's Courtyard with this magnet.Isabella Stewart Gardner began the annual tradition of hanging colorful displays of nasturtium vines that cascaded from the Courtyard balconies at Fenway. The vines continue to come alive during the week before Easter as the Gardner Museum celebrates the arrival of spring.
Photograph by Sean Dugan
Photograph by Clements & Howcroft, 2009
4 x 3 inches
Made in the USA
Monks Garden Turmeric Tea
$16.00
Monks Garden Turmeric Tea is from our line of loose teas inspired by the art in Isabella Stewart Gardner's Collection and blended by Elmwood Inn Fine Teas.Both turmeric and dried ginger, the main ingredients in this caffeine-free infusion, are known for their anti-inflammatory benefits. We've added flower petals and Middle Eastern spices to this colorful blend which steeps a relaxing cup of tea - reminiscent of a walk through our Monks Garden.
All organic ingredients: Ginger, cardamom, turmeric, hibiscus, clove, rose petals, marigold petals, and leaf stevia.
NET WT. 3.5 oz (100G)
Belle's Rose Tea
$16.00
For centuries, Chinese tea merchants have carefully created blends for tea drinkers in both London and Boston.Featuring aromatic rose petals, this Chinese black tea was a popular blend for tea parties at the beginning of the 20th century. Isabella Stewart Gardner (called ‘Belle’ by her close friends) hosted many such tea events in her Fenway Palace.
This tea comes from our collection of loose teas inspired by the Museum and blended by Elmwood Inn Fine Teas.
Ingredients: Black Chinese tea, rose petals
NET WT. 3.5 oz (100G)
Lavender and Honey Dark Chocolate Bar
$8.95
We collaborated with Boxborough, MA chocolatiers Lala and Neethu of Two Friends Chocolate to create our Courtyard Confections line of chocolates inspired by the Gardner Museum. These marvelous bars highlight the complex flavors of edible flowers featured in the Courtyard.This bar features a fragrant lavender and honey blend folded into a smooth dark chocolate. A crowd favorite!
Each bar is hand-wrapped in letterpress papers from Florence, Italy.
Allergen warning: Contains soy. Bars are manufactured in a facility that also processes milk, peanuts, and other tree nuts.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Daring by Design
$45.00
An in-depth study of one of Boston’s treasured cultural landmarks, the pioneering patron behind the collection, and the Pritzker Prize–winning architect who modernized the Gardner Museum’s vision.When Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her exquisitely curated collection to the public in 1903, she could hardly have imagined the more than 250,000 visitors that now annually explore the art and furnishings housed in her historic re-creation of a Venetian palace.
Tasked with the first addition to the museum since its founding, Renzo Piano Building Workshop has brought Gardner’s vision into the new millennium. In addition to sumptuous images of the courtyards, gardens, and galleries of the original stone palazzo and rarely seen journal pages and photographs, this beautifully designed volume features architectural renderings and new photographs of the 70,000-square-foot wing.
Essays address Gardner’s life, including her friendships with Henry James, James McNeill Whistler, and John Singer Sargent; the museum’s interaction with Renzo Piano Building Workshop; and the new building within the firm’s distinguished museum work as a whole.
By Anne Hawley, Robert Campbell, and Alexander Wood
160 pages
Published by Skira Rizzoli 2014
Hardcover
9.8 x 1.1 x 11.8 inches
Nasturtium Photo Tote
$4.00
Isabella Stewart Gardner began the annual tradition of hanging colorful displays of nasturtium vines that cascaded from the Courtyard balconies at Fenway. The vines continue to come alive during the week before Easter as the Gardner Museum celebrates the arrival of spring.
Measures 16" x 6" x 12"Made of laminated textile
Courtyard Mums Scarf
$47.00
Based in Somerville, MA, Printed Village regularly issues challenges to artists around the world, creating unique and wearable designs from their submissions.
The Courtyard Mums scarf design is the winning style from a Gardner Museum-inspired challenge, created by artist Cathy Hunt. Participating artists drew inspiration from the Gardner's Courtyard.
75 x 37 inches
100% Polyester
Machine Washable
El Jaleo Puzzle
$26.00
El Jaleo
1882
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925
Images like El Jaleo lean toward the daring, risky, unconventional, dramatic, erotically off-center, and odd. Because nomadic groups were believed to ignore ethical principles and exalted superstition over orthodox religion, they endured oppression in numerous countries during the nineteenth century, but artists and bohemians idealized them as free spirits. Bizet's opera Carmen, first performed in Paris in 1875, scandalized the public with its tale of a proud, lusty Andalusian protagonist torn between an army officer and a toreador.
During his travels in Spain in 1879, Sargent was mulling over a major work of art in which he could express his love of Romani music, dance, and picturesque costumes. On his return to Paris, he set to work on a wide horizontal picture whose proportions simulated the shallow stage space of popular musical establishments. He named the painting El Jaleo to suggest the name of a dance, the jaleo de jerez, while counting on the broader definition of jaleo, which includes ruckus or hubbub. The painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1882 with the more explicit title El Jaleo: Danse des gitanes (Dance of the Gypsies).
The best evidence of his own excited reactions to live dance performances can be found in the pencil sketches of a Spanish woman that he included in an album assembled for Isabella Stewart Gardner. They are among his fastest, most intuitive works. In one drawing, a torrent of fast hard lines suggests the twisting shawl from which a majestic neck and outstretched vamping arms emerge.
This 300 piece puzzle features John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo, displayed prominently in the Spanish Cloister at Fenway. The puzzle comes in a paperboard box featuring Sargent's work, so you can safely store your puzzle.
Puzzle measure 11 x 17 inches
300 pieces
Courtyard Tea
$16.00
Gardens and horticulture flourish at the Gardner Museum, reflecting Isabella Stewart Gardner’s passions. The Museum’s interior Courtyard is an astonishing work of art itself, combining horticultural, sculptural, and architectural elements. This serene blend of naturally caffeine-free flowers and herbs pays homage to that colorful tradition.This tea comes from our collection of loose teas inspired by the Museum and blended by Elmwood Inn Fine Teas.
Ingredients: Chamomile, rooibos, lemon balm, lemon verbena, linden flowers, anise, cinnamon, oat straw, hops, passion flower, and orange peel
NET WT. 3.5 oz (100G)
Ruckus Tea
$16.00
Inspired by John Singer Sergeants masterwork El Jaleo, this energetic blend of Ceylon and Chinese black teas is enhanced with dried Seville oranges and lemons and enhanced with the heady aroma of oil of Bergamot from the Mediterranean coast of Italy. The addition of bright blue cornflowers, lime leaves, and rose petals makes for a colorful pallet of tea that is as beautiful as it is delicious.This tea comes from our collection of loose teas inspired by the Museum and blended by Elmwood Inn Fine Teas.
Ingredients: Black teas from Sri Lanka and China, orange peel, lemon peel, oil of Bergamot, cornflowers, lime leaves, rose petals
NET WT. 3.5 oz (100G)
Courtyard Birds Scarf
$47.00
Based in Somerville, MA, Printed Village regularly issues challenges to artists around the world, creating unique and wearable designs from their submissions.The Courtyard Birds scarf design is the winning style from a Gardner Museum-inspired challenge, created by artist Polypisut Chueobchoey. Participating artists drew inspiration from the Gardner's Courtyard.
75 x 37 inches
100% Polyester
Machine Washable
Nasturtium Milk Chocolate Bar
Sold Out
Isabella Stewart Gardner began the annual tradition of hanging colorful displays of nasturtium vines that cascaded from the Courtyard balconies at Fenway. The vines continue to come alive during the week before Easter as the Gardner Museum celebrates the arrival of spring. This chocolate bar celebrates this much-beloved tradition of nasturtiums at the Museum, combining nasturtium pieces with a creamy milk chocolate.
Each bar is hand-wrapped in letterpress papers from Florence, Italy.
Allergen warning: Contains soy. Bars are manufactured in a facility that also processes milk, peanuts, and other tree nuts.
Isabella Quote Mug: "My Garden is Riotous"
$15.00
“My garden is riotous, unholy, deliriously glorious!
I wish you were here.” - Isabella Stewart Gardner in a letter to Bernard Berenson dated June 24, 1898
When Isabella Stewart Gardner agreed to sponsor the career of an aspiring young writer named Bernard Berenson, neither dreamed that together they would build one of the country’s most impressive private collections of fine art. Berenson--or B.B., as he signed off on his letters--became Mrs. Gardner’s chief art adviser and her dear friend, as well as America’s leading expert on Italian Renaissance painting.
In her missive to Berenson, Mrs. Gardner referenced the flora growing at the Gardner’s Brookline estate Green Hill, which Jack Gardner inherited from his father in 1884. Here, Mrs. Gardner continued to cultivate her lifelong love of horticulture. The spirit of Mrs. Gardner’s passion for plants blooms perennially in the Courtyard and throughout her Museum.
11 oz. ceramic mug
Dishwasher and microwave safe
Hibiscus Dark Chocolate Bar
Sold Out
This bar features hibiscus pieces blended into a smooth dark chocolate.
Each bar is hand-wrapped in letterpress papers from Florence, Italy.
Allergen warning: Contains soy. Bars are manufactured in a facility that also processes milk, peanuts, and other tree nuts.
Full Medusa Mosaic Coaster
$18.00
In 1892, an ancient villa was discovered just north of Rome, near the villa of Augustus’s wife, Livia. Several well-preserved mosaic floors adorned the baths of the villa. Jack and Isabella Gardner inspected the mosaics in 1895 and purchased this floor in 1897. The delicate tracery of this mosaic resembles those made in Pompeii around 25 AD (the late second or third style), but brick stamps indicate that it was laid a century later, during the reign of Emperor Hadrian.
Inspired by a work that now lies in the very heart of the Museum, this coaster of the full Courtyard Mosaic is sure to be a touchstone for your experience at the Gardner.=
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design.
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
4 x 4 inches
Made in the USA
Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums
$55.00
In 1865, art collector and philanthropist Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924) lost her only child to pneumonia at less than two years old. In an effort to rouse her from depression, Gardner and her husband, Jack, traveled to northern Europe and Russia. It was the first of many trips abroad that would eventually take her from the Middle East to Asia—trips that she documented in exquisitely crafted collaged travel albums. Fellow Wanderer brings together nearly thirty of Gardner’s striking travelogues, spanning some thirty-nine countries and offering invaluable perspective on the global influences on this legendary collector and patron of the arts.This book features beautiful facsimiles of Gardner’s travel albums—largely unpublished until now—along with essays by leading scholars who place these diaries and sketchbooks within the context of the art and culture of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia in the nineteenth century. The essays explore a host of topics, such as Gardner’s engagement with world religions while abroad, how she incorporated designs and ideas from around the globe into her Boston museum, and the ways in which the imperial power structures of the era facilitated her travels.
Lushly illustrated, Fellow Wanderer provides a uniquely intimate look at how Gardner’s rich and diverse experiences abroad instilled her collecting and patronage with a truly global vision of art.
Edited by Diana Seave Greenwald, William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Collection, and Casey Riley
214 pages
Published by Princeton University Press, 2023
Hardcover
12" x 14"
Nasturtium Tea
$16.00
Isabella Stewart Gardner started the tradition of placing colorful displays of Nasturtium vines that cascaded from the courtyard balconies at Fenway. The vines continue to come alive during the week before Easter as the Gardner Museum celebrates the arrival of spring. This refreshing black tea combines Nasturtium blossoms with citrus notes of dried lemon and lime and a bit of pineapple.Ingredients: Sri Lankan Black Tea, Nasturtium Blossoms, Lemon and Lime Pieces, Pineapple, Calendula, Lemon Grass and Sunflower Petals.
NET WT. 3.5 oz (100G)
Loose Tea
Sargent Note Card Set
$24.95
Isabella Stewart Gardner and John Singer Sargent were longtime friends and mutual art lovers. The Museum's collection features an array of works by the artist.
This set of eight note cards with envelopes showcases different works in the collection by Sargent.
Works featured include:
- El Jaleo, 1882
- Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1888
- Madam Gautreau Drinking a Toast, 1882-1883
- Charles Martin Loeffler, 1903
- A Tent in the Rockies, about 1916
- Incensing the Veil, 1880
- Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, 1903-1907
- San Giuseppe di Castello, Venice, about 1903
6.25 x 4.75 inches box
Blueprint T-Shirt
$29.95
Isabella’s Palace is one of a kind. From the architecture, to the artwork, to the gardens... the building is a living art form. By integrating Roman, Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance elements and stone columns, she could have created a discordant mess. Instead it is a beautiful and harmonious whole. The Museum's blueprint is printed on a 100% cotton Architee shirt.
Please note: X-Small shirts are only available in Navy; sizes Small to 3X-Large are only available in black.
Unisex sizes
Printed in USA
Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists
$19.99
A spellbinding journey into the high-stakes world of art theft.
Today, art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion in losses to galleries and art collectors annually. The masterpieces of Rembrandt van Rijn are some of the most frequently targeted.
In Stealing Rembrandts, art security expert and the Gardner's Head of Security Anthony M. Amore and award-winning investigative reporter Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major Rembrandt heists in the last century. Through thefts around the world - from Stockholm to Boston, Worcester to Ohio - the authors track daring entries and escapes from the world's most renowned museums.
There are robbers who coolly walk off with multi million dollar paintings; self-styled art experts who fall in love with the Dutch master and desire to own his art at all costs; and international criminal masterminds who don't hesitate to resort to violence. They also show how museums are thwarted in their ability to pursue the thieves - even going so far as to conduct investigations on their own, far away from the maddening crowd of police intervention, sparing no expense to save the priceless masterpieces.
Stealing Rembrandts is an exhilarating, one-of-a-kind look at the black market of art theft, and how it compromises some of the greatest treasures the world has ever known.
By Anthony M. Amore, Head of Security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Tom Mashberg
272 pages
Published by St. Martin's Griffin, 2012
Softcover
6.2 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
Jasmine Pearl Dark Chocolate Bar
$8.95
We collaborated with Boxborough, MA chocolatiers Lala and Neethu of Two Friends Chocolate to create our Courtyard Confections line of chocolates inspired by the Gardner Museum. These marvelous bars highlight the complex flavors of edible flowers featured in the Courtyard.This bar features fragrant jasmine enveloped by smooth dark chocolate.
Each bar is hand-wrapped in letterpress papers from Florence, Italy.
Allergen warning: Contains soy. Bars are manufactured in a facility that also processes milk, peanuts, and other tree nuts.
Isabella Stewart Gardner, Dog Lover
$19.95
Isabella Stewart Gardner was a force to be reckoned with. She routinely went toe-to-toe with major museums and titans of industry to purchase masterpieces, created a museum unlike any other, and was famous for consistently flouting the social conventions that governed women of her time. However, this book shows another side of Isabella that readers may not expect: her love of dogs.
Richly illustrated with images from the collection and museum archives, this volume allows readers to meet Isabella's favorite dogs (Kitty Wink and Patty Boy), see the litters of puppies she bred, and discover how her dogs were a comfort toward the end of her life. Usually stern in photographs, Isabella - like many people - could not help grinning when posing for photos with puppies. This enthusiasm for dogs is also evident in her correspondence. As she wrote excitedly to her art advisor Bernard Berenson: "Part of my morning's work has been to try to induce two 9 days old fox terrier pups to open their eyes again. They did once; and then clapped them to, with a vim that seemed to say that the box they found themselves in was not the ideal they had come to this world to see!" Even the dogs of celebrities - both celebrities she knew personally, and others she admired from afar - drew her attention. This book also features some of the many photographs she collected of notable people and their dogs, like the painter Anders Zorn and his adorable pup Mouche and Caesar, the regal and loyal terrier who belonged to King Edward VII and even marched in the monarch's funeral parade.
From gathering Renaissance masterpieces to raising Fox Terriers, this book shows that Isabella approached all her tasks with enthusiasm and dedication. By learning about her love of her canine companions, this book presents a more human side of Isabella than typically on display.
Written by Diana Seave Greenwald, William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Collection
40 pages
Published by Paul Holberton Publishing, 2020
Hardcover
9 x 9 inches
Medusa Enamel Pin
$10.00
Inspired by the gorgon that lies at the very heart of the Museum, this enamel pin of Medusa's head with serpentine locks is said to have the power to ward off evil (and will surely not turn you into stone).
Measures 1.25" x 1.25"
Made of enamel and stainless steel
Gardner Tassel Bookmark
$2.95
Isabella Stewart Gardner
1888
John Singer Sargent (Florence, 1856 - 1925, London)
Oil on canvas
Mrs. Gardner sat for Sargent during his visit to Boston in January 1888. He was paid $3000 for the portrait, which was exhibited to great acclaim at Boston’s St. Botolph Club. The work also inspired gossip and legend: someone jokingly titled it “Woman: An Enigma,” while others believed that the sensuous display of flesh deliberately echoed the scandal recently created by Sargent’s Madame X. Mrs. Gardner herself said that she rejected eight renderings of the face until she was satisfied.
Jack Gardner seems to have asked his wife not to publicly show the portrait again while he was alive, and indeed the portrait was placed in the Gothic Room, which remained private until Mrs. Gardner’s death.
In its gallery, surrounded by altarpieces, stained glass, and religious statuary, the sacramental quality noted by nineteenth-century reviewers is even more pronounced.
6 x 2 inches
Turkish Coaster
$18.00
The Iznik tiles of the second half of the sixteenth century are justly famous for their bright tomato-red color, which together with black, blue, turquoise, and green were painted in underglaze colors on the flawless white ground. This tile is unusual in several respects: it uses black in large amounts, the most important elements of the field have been quartered in the corners of the tile, and no other tiles from this panel have yet come to light. It is believed that this tile, now affixed in the Spanish Cloister of the Gardner Museum, was created as part of a large set for an unknown mosque or palace.
This coaster featuring the Turkish tile from the Spanish Cloister is sure to be a utilitarian touchstone for your experience at the Gardner.
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design.
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
4 x 4 inches
Made in the USA
Mexican Coaster: Bird
$18.00
Isabella Gardner herself spent hours assembling the nearly 2,000 painted and glazed tiles into the appealing pattern we see today on the walls of the Spanish Cloister. Her friend, the artist Dodge Macknight, bought the tiles for her in Mexico in 1909 from the Church of San Agustìn in Mexico.This coaster, featuring one of the tile designs from Church of San Agustìn now located in the Museum's Spanish Cloister, is sure to be a utilitarian touchstone for your experience at the Gardner.
Other tile designs also available.
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design.4 x 4 inches
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
Made in the USA
Nasturtium Scarf
$47.00
Based in Somerville, MA, Printed Village regularly issues challenges to artists around the world, creating unique and wearable designs from their submissions.The Nasturtium Scarf design is the winning style from a Gardner Museum-inspired challenge, created by UK-based artist Natalia Gonzalez. Participating artists drew inspiration from the Gardner Museum's Nasturtium tradition.
Isabella Stewart Gardner started the tradition of placing colorful displays of Nasturtium vines that cascaded from the courtyard balconies at Fenway. The vines continue to come alive during the week before Easter as the Gardner Museum celebrates the arrival of spring.
75 x 37 inches
100% Polyester
Machine Washable
Nasturtium Eyeglass Case
$20.00
This beautiful hardshell eyeglass case features the painting Nasturtiums by Jan I Voerman. The plush black lining and included microfiber cloth and will keep your glasses safe and smudge-free.6.5 x 1.5 x 3 inches
Mexican Coaster: Colorful Quatrefoil
$18.00
Isabella Gardner herself spent hours assembling the nearly 2,000 painted and glazed tiles into the appealing pattern we see today on the walls of the Spanish Cloister. Her friend, the artist Dodge Macknight, bought the tiles for her in Mexico in 1909 from the Church of San Agustìn in Mexico.
This coaster, featuring one of the tile designs from Church of San Agustìn now located in the Museum's Spanish Cloister, is sure to be a utilitarian touchstone for your experience at the Gardner.
Other tile designs also available.
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design
4 x 4 inches
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
Made in the USA
Isabella Said Bookmark Set
$7.95
Make a statement with this set of 8 paper bookmarks prominently featuring quotes and sayings attributed to Isabella Stewart Gardner! Our bookmarks are the perfect gift for the bibliophile!
Measures 7.25" x 2.25"Made of durable cardstock
ISGM Pencil Set
$13.95
This set of four solid graphite pencils offers a variety of color options: chose from dark gray, light gray, silver, or gold to craft your masterpiece.
Each pencil features Museum's logo. The pencil case features a sketch from the Museum's archives of Thomas McKeller by John Singer Sargent. McKeller posed for most of the figures—both male and female—in Sargent’s murals in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Perfect for sketching in the Museum's Courtyard!
Set of 4 pencils
Afternoon Tea
$16.00
Throughout the early 1900s, teapots in London and Boston were filled with black teas grown across the British Empire. These rich and malty blends were created with the British taste for tea with milk and sugar in mind.Afternoon Tea was created for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and crafted to be served as the perfect beverage for a classic afternoon tea.
This tea comes from our collection of loose teas inspired by the Museum and blended by Elmwood Inn Fine Teas.
Ingredients: Handpicked blacks teas from India, Kenya, and Sri Lanka
NET WT. 3.5 oz (100G)
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