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Willard Thomas Sears - Design for the Courtyard of Fenway Court, 1900

Willard Thomas Sears (New Bedford, 1837 - 1920, Boston)

Design for the Courtyard of Fenway Court, 1900

Pencil and watercolor on wove paper , 61.6 x 99.7 cm (24 1/4 x 39 1/4 in.)

Commentary

Architect Willard T. Sears worked with Isabella Stewart Gardner to build her museum, which she called Fenway Court, between 1899 and 1901. This concept drawing is one of a series that Gardner kept after the project’s completion.