Tag Archives: Morris Carter

Money is the sixth sense

Isabella Stewart Gardner was certainly no prude. She liked to tell risque jokes in public, and she did her best to shake up, startle, and rattle staid old Boston society. Her pleasure dome in the Back Bay filled with masterpieces … Continue reading

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Gardner: build and they will come

A bowl of fresh violets, Isabella Stewart Gardner’s favorite flower, in accordance with her custom, is kept besode her favorite painting- a somewhat effeminate Christ Carrying the Cross which she bought as a Giorgione despite Bernard Berenson’s advice: “unquestionably genuine… … Continue reading

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passion for painting

Isabelle Stuart Gardner’s palace of paintings…. Perhaps the most astonishing single aspect of Fenway Court today is the disparity between its present value and what it cost Mrs. Gardner. Morris Carter, her biographer said, said that what she paid was … Continue reading

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she bought what she wanted: money’s worth

It was a palace of paintings. For conservative old Beantown, she was simply startling and an individualist; she erected a Venetian pleasure dome in the Back Bay and filled it with masterpieces for the public to enjoy. …In 1892 Mrs. … Continue reading

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