Object details
Object number
ARC.008519
Creator(s)
Title
A. Piatt Andrew and Isabella Stewart Gardner on the Terrace at Red Roof, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Date
6 October 1910
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Language
English
Dimensions
19.4 x 24.3 cm (7 5/8 x 9 9/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in ink (lower left): 17131
Inscribed in ink (lower right): T.E. Marr & Son
Provenance
Probably commissioned by Isabella Stewart Gardner from photographer Thomas E. Marr on 6 October 1910.
Commentary
Thomas Marr took this photograph of Isabella Stewart Gardner with her good friend A. Piatt Andrew on the terrace at his home called Red Roof on Gloucester’s Eastern point, where Andrew was the center of a lively and creative group of friends. After her first visit to the community, Isabella wrote, “Your village is Fogland with the sea’s white arms about you all. Don’t let others crawl in – Only me! For I care. I love its rich, strange people, so far away…”
Bibliography
Elizabeth Reluga, "Summer Vacation in Gloucester," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 23 June 2020, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/summer-vacation-gloucesterR. Tripp Evans, "A Piatt Andrew, the 'A' to Mrs. Gardner's 'Y,'" Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 June 2024, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/piatt-andrew-mrs-gardners-y
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