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Charmaine Wheatley: The Impossible Shoes Print
$100.00
The second edition in our contemporary limited fine art print series, created from a photograph of a painting titled: The Impossible Shoes by Charmaine Wheatley (Artist-in-Residence, 2012) to commemorate the ephemeral site-specific exhibit titled Charmaine Wheatley: Souvenirs, installed in the museum’s Fenway Gallery from September 2015 to February 2017. The original work is a painting of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s shoes, which the artist made in the Textile Conservation Lab. Each edition print is stamped, numbered, and signed on the front by the artist.
Limited Edition Print
Charmaine Wheatley
Hand signed and numbered edition of 300
13.832 x 19 inches unframed
Maurizio Cannacacciuolo: A Lecture on Martian History Print
$100.00
This print was created from a photograph of a painting by Maurizio Cannacacciuolo (Artist-in-Residence, 2003) to commemorate the ephemeral site-specific work titled A Lecture on Martian History, installed on the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade from June 2016 to January 2017.
A native of Naples, Maurizio Cannavacciuolo lived and traveled extensively in Asia, especially India and Thailand. His art explores the overlap and divergence of cultural influences in contemporary society.
Isabella Stewart Gardner’s passion for the sumptuous look and feel of textiles can be felt throughout the Museum. She surrounded works of art with fabrics of different colors and patterns, creating particular moods for each installation. Maurizio Cannavacciuolo, too, treats patterns and color in a very eclectic fashion. Designs inspired by Edo textiles from Japan and Cuban tiles from Old Havana in this Façade are all part of the artist’s multicultural vision. The elaborately overlapping drawings and patterns relate a science fiction narrative, drawing on cultural trivia, emotion, and aesthetics to deliver a witty and provocative message about life, culture, and consumption in the 21st century.
In this installation, the colonization of Earth by Martians is told generations later by a many-armed teacher, the product of Human-Martian interbreeding. In the early years of the invasion, when the Martians entered the empty Human houses, they discovered flickering television sets. They were fascinated by the hypnotic, repetitive images, white noise, and static emitted by the blank screens. The Television becomes a Martian cult object. Five vignettes tell a part of the story including a scene set in a fictional performance hall at the Gardner Museum.
Cannavacciuolo first came to the Gardner Museum in 2003 as an Artist-in-Residence. He returned in February 2004 and spent five weeks creating TV Dinner, an elaborate two-part wall drawing in the Museum’s special exhibition gallery. He is the eighth artist to be invited to do a work for the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade.
There are one hundred numbered prints in in the edition.
Maurizio Cannavacciuolo
24 x 14 inches unframed
Sarcophagus Framed Print - Detail Center
$35.00
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Sarcophagus Framed Print - Detail Right
$35.00
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Revelers Gathering Grapes Plaque
$180.00
This wall relief depicting satyrs and maenads gathering grapes on one of the most important pieces in the Gardner Museum, the Farnese Sarcophagus.
The scene is brought to life on hand painted cold cast resin and comes from the sarcophagus itself. It was created for the Gardner Museum by Summit Collection Gifts.
18.5 x 8.5 x 1 inches
Comes ready to adorn your wall
Mat Weight Bear
$115.00
Delightfully naturalistic, this bear sculpture has been carefully replicated to honor the characteristic details of the two Mat Bear Weights showcased in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Early Italian Room. The weights are a part of the special exhibition Common Threads: Weaving Stories Across Time (October 4, 2018 -January 13, 2019).
This Mat Bear Weight sculpture captures the patina, mottled coloring, and details of the original. Used as a weight or a decorative object, this resin bear sculpture will continue its time-honored tradition of being a favored possession, sure to demonstrate its unique utility and aesthetic.
Measures 6.13 x 6 inches
Made of resin
Made by YTC Summit International of Arcadia, California
Votive Stele
$160.00
Among the collection of Chinese Buddhist sculptures in the Gardner Museum’s Chinese Loggia is the limestone Votive Stele. This notable piece--dating from 543--was purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Russian art collector Victor Goloubew in July 1914, via Mrs. Gardner’s chief art advisor Bernard Berenson. The front of the stele presents in high relief the Buddha Sakyamuni in the center, whose right hand is held in the “fearless gesture” (abhaya mudra) and his left hand in the “charity gesture” (vara mudra). He is attended by the young disciple Ananda and the old disciple Kasyapa, both with shaven heads and attired in monastic robes. The Buddha is further flanked by the bodhisattva Maitreya to his right, who holds a flask, and the bodhisattva Manjusri to his left. The two bodhisattvas respectively embody Compassion and Wisdom. The iconic ensemble as such, unique in China, gained currency in the early sixth century.
The universal salvation advocated by the Lotus Sutra is further dramatized in the scene carved in low relief on the back of the stele, based on the chapter “The Emergence of Many-Treasure Stupa.” The Buddha Sakyamuni, about to enter Nirvana, or the “Great Extinction,” joins Prabhutaratna, the ancient Buddha from the past and distant land, in the latter’s stupa, which hovers in the air. Sakyamuni then transports the entire ensemble witnessing the spectacle into Buddha’s realms.This miniature resin reproduction of the stele honors both the work itself and the Asian art within the Gardner Museum’s collection. It is the perfect objet d’arte for your home and office.
9.5 x 6.25 x 14 inches
Made of resin
Architecture Mercer Tile
$27.95
Moravian Pottery Tile Works of Doylestown, Pennsylvania opened its doors in 1898 and continues to operate today. Our reproduction Gothic Room Floor Tiles originate from the same ceramic studio that Isabella Stewart Gardner commissioned to create the Gothic Room’s floor. Each tile motif, inspired by different artistic trades and geometric designs, is made using glazed red clay.
3.5 x 3.5 inchesLimited Edition
Crescent Shield Mercer Tile
$27.95
Moravian Pottery Tile Works of Doylestown, Pennsylvania opened its doors in 1898 and continues to operate today. Our reproduction Gothic Room Floor Tiles originate from the same ceramic studio that Isabella Stewart Gardner commissioned to create the Gothic Room’s floor. Each tile motif, inspired by different artistic trades and geometric designs, is made using glazed red clay.
3.5 x 3.5 inchesLimited Edition
Dragon Mercer Tile
$27.95
Moravian Pottery Tile Works of Doylestown, Pennsylvania opened its doors in 1898 and continues to operate today. Our reproduction Gothic Room Floor Tiles originate from the same ceramic studio that Isabella Stewart Gardner commissioned to create the Gothic Room’s floor. Each tile motif, inspired by different artistic trades and geometric designs, is made using glazed red clay.
3.5 x 3.5 inchesLimited Edition
Foliate Circle Mercer Tile
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Moravian Pottery Tile Works of Doylestown, Pennsylvania opened its doors in 1898 and continues to operate today. Our reproduction Gothic Room Floor Tiles originate from the same ceramic studio that Isabella Stewart Gardner commissioned to create the Gothic Room’s floor. Each tile motif, inspired by different artistic trades and geometric designs, is made using glazed red clay.
3.5 x 3.5 inchesLimited Edition
Lion Shield Mercer Tile
$27.95
Moravian Pottery Tile Works of Doylestown, Pennsylvania opened its doors in 1898 and continues to operate today. Our reproduction Gothic Room Floor Tiles originate from the same ceramic studio that Isabella Stewart Gardner commissioned to create the Gothic Room’s floor. Each tile motif, inspired by different artistic trades and geometric designs, is made using glazed red clay.
3.5 x 3.5 inches eachLimited Edition
Literature Mercer Tile
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Moravian Pottery Tile Works of Doylestown, Pennsylvania opened its doors in 1898 and continues to operate today. Our reproduction Gothic Room Floor Tiles originate from the same ceramic studio that Isabella Stewart Gardner commissioned to create the Gothic Room’s floor. Each tile motif, inspired by different artistic trades and geometric designs, is made using glazed red clay.
3.5 x 3.5 inches
Music Mercer Tile
$27.95
Moravian Pottery Tile Works of Doylestown, Pennsylvania opened its doors in 1898 and continues to operate today. Our Reproduction Gothic Room Floor Tiles originate from the same ceramic studio that Isabella Stewart Gardner commissioned to create the Gothic Room’s floor. Each tile motif, inspired by different artistic trades and geometric designs, is made using glazed red clay.
3.5 x 3.5 inchesLimited Edition
Painting Mercer Tile
$27.95
Moravian Pottery Tile Works of Doylestown, Pennsylvania opened its doors in 1898 and continues to operate today. Our Reproduction Gothic Room Floor Tiles originate from the same ceramic studio that Isabella Stewart Gardner commissioned to create the Gothic Room’s floor. Each tile motif, inspired by different artistic trades and geometric designs, is made using glazed red clay.
3.5 x 3.5 inchesLimited Edition
Vicar of Stowe Mercer Tile
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Moravian Pottery Tile Works of Doylestown, Pennsylvania opened its doors in 1898 and continues to operate today. Our reproduction Gothic Room Floor Tiles originate from the same ceramic studio that Isabella Stewart Gardner commissioned to create the Gothic Room’s floor. Each tile motif, inspired by different artistic trades and geometric designs, is made using glazed red clay.
3.5 x 3.5 inchesLimited Edition
Wheel Mercer Tile
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Moravian Pottery Tile Works of Doylestown, Pennsylvania opened its doors in 1898 and continues to operate today. Our reproduction Gothic Room Floor Tiles originate from the same ceramic studio that Isabella Stewart Gardner commissioned to create the Gothic Room’s floor. Each tile motif, inspired by different artistic trades and geometric designs, is made using glazed red clay.
3.5 x 3.5 inchesLimited Edition
Maltese Cross Mercer Tile
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Moravian Pottery Tile Works of Doylestown, Pennsylvania opened its doors in 1898 and continues to operate today. Our Reproduction Gothic Room Floor Tiles originate from the same ceramic studio that Isabella Stewart Gardner commissioned to create the Gothic Room’s floor. Each tile motif, inspired by different artistic trades and geometric designs, is made using glazed red clay.
2.5 x 2.5 inchesLimited Edition
El Jaleo Ornament
$16.95
During his travels in Spain in 1879, John Singer Sargent was mulling over a major work of art in which he could express his love of Gypsy 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 meaning jaleo, which means 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 painting was purchased by American businessman and diplomat T. Jefferson Coolidge in 1882, and was given to Mrs. Gardner as a gift in 1914. Then, as now, El Jaleo resides in the Spanish Cloister of the Gardner Museum, just off the famous Courtyard.
This ornament captures the central figure of Sargent's work, the semi-veiled flamenco dancer, in fluid motion with her skirt in one hand while the other flourishes with the music. Have Sargent's El Jaleo dancer gracefully twirl her way onto your Christmas tree this holiday season!
Ornaments of other subjects and artists featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with the El Jaleo dancer!
Isabella Stewart Gardner Ornament
$16.95
This ornament of Isabella Stewart Gardner is directly inspired by her portrait painted by John Singer Sargent and displayed in the Gothic Room.
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.
Ornaments of other subjects and artists featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with Sargent's vision of the Museum's founder!
Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice Ornament
$16.95
This ornament is based on Isabella Stewart Gardner's likeness in Anders Zorn's 1984 portrait of her at the Palazzo Barbaro in Venice, where she often stayed and entertained an international set of cultural celebrities. This depiction perfectly captures Gardner’s vibrant personality as she comes in from a balcony to encourage dinner party guests to join her for the display of fireworks over the Grand Canal.
Seeing this painting on display in Gardner’s museum in 1906, Anne O’Hagan Shinn, a suffragette and an early commentator on the collection, described the painting as a “flamelike incarnation of vigor and life—impression helped, doubtless, by the wonderful yellow gown which swathes the strong and supple figure that seems to leap from the canvas.”
Ornaments of other subjects and artists featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with Zorn's vision of the Museum's founder!
John Singer Sargent Ornament
$16.95
This ornament of Gardner's friend and 19th century artist John Singer Sargent comes from a print by John Templeman Coolidge of Sargent painting in the Museum's Gothic Room.
John Singer Sargent was the first artist-in-residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. During the month of April 1903 he slept in a guest room (now called the Macknight Room) and created new works of art in his temporary studio, the Gothic Room.
John Templeman Coolidge, an artist and friend of Isabella’s, took several photographs of Sargent painting the portrait of Gretchen Osgood Warren and her daughter Rachel in the Gothic Room. These candid pictures show Sargent in a whirl of activity with brush and palette in hand—and a cigarette in his mouth.
Ornaments of other subjects and artists featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with John Singer Sargent!
Nasturtium Window Ornament
$16.95
Inspired by the Gardner Museum's annual Nasturtium Display, this ornament features the blooms gently adorning the Venetian palazzo windows of Mrs. Gardner's Fenway Palace.
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.
Ornaments of other subjects and artists featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with the Nasturtium Window Ornament!
Young Rembrandt Ornament
$16.95
This ornament of a young Rembrandt is based on his self portrait that hangs in the Dutch room. Purchased by Isabella in 1896, this painting is said by our first director, Morris Carter, to be the first that she acquired with “the intention of developing a real museum collection.”
Much like the portrait from which the ornament originates, this figure of a twenty-three year old Rembrandt is all about costume: the plumed cap, silk scarf, and the gold necklace will stand out on your Christmas tree!
Ornaments of other subjects and artists featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with Young Rembrandt!
Whistler Canary Ornament
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Because of the deep impact The Living Room exhibition had on the museum in 2000, Gardner Museum Artist-in-Residence Lee Mingwei was invited back to collaborate on Gardner Museum’s new building project and to help design a room inspired by his project. Part of this design included an actual living component of the room: a canary named Whistler after Gardner's long-time friend and artist James McNeill Whistler.
Ornaments of other subjects and artists featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with the Gardner Museum's canary, Whistler!
Fleece Throw: Coronation of Hebe
$84.95
The Coronation of Hebe
1580-1589
Studio of Paolo Veronese (Verona, 1528 - 1588, Venice)
Durable and chic, this umbrella has a black exterior and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's The Coronation of Hebe printed on the interior. This painting decorates the ceiling of the Museum's Veronese Room and evokes the sensuality and opulence of sixteenth century Venice. The scene shows Hebe being presented by Mercury to her parents, Jupiter and Juno. The umbrella has a curved handle, a auto-open button, and a snap closure with the Museum's name.
This throw features Veronese's The Coronation of Hebe, located in the Veronese of the Museum. The lap blanket's outside displays a phenomenally clear reproduction of Sargent's painting on plush silk-touch microfiber fleece and a Sherpa fleece underside.
Measures approximately 4 x 5 feet
Made in the US
Fleece Throw: Garden of Poppies
$84.95
Garden of Poppies
about 1891
John Appleton Brown, American,1844-1902
John Appleton Brown was a landscape painted and pastellist who had studied in France with Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875). Brown established himself in a Boston studio in 1875 and concentrated upon creating poetic and pastoral depictions of the New England landscape. In Garden of Poppies, Brown employs a bright pallet to create the freshness of poet Celia Thaxter's Appledore Island garden.
This throw features Brown's Garden of Poppies, located in the Yellow Room of the Museum. The lap blanket's outside displays a phenomenally clear reproduction of Sargent's painting on plush silk-touch microfiber fleece and a Sherpa fleece underside.
Measures approximately 4 x 5 feet
Made in the US
Fleece Throw: San Giuseppe di Castello
$84.95
San Giuseppe di Castello
1903
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925
The different shades of the water, the brightness of the light and the dense urban architecture of Venice were elements that fascinated Sargent throughout his life. In this drawing, he turns a rather unspectacular neighborhood into a miraculous metaphor for the romantic appeal of Venice. His passion for the city apparently did not extend to its inhabitants: note, how little interest he showed in depicting the figures on the bridge.
This throw features Sargent's San Giuseppe di Castello, located in the Blue Room of the Museum. The lap blanket's outside displays a phenomenally clear reproduction of Sargent's painting on plush silk-touch microfiber fleece and a Sherpa fleece underside.
Measures approximately 4 x 5 feet
Made in the US
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