Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The museum operates the Gail Brooker Ceramic Research Library within its building, with the library being managed as a part of the University of Toronto Library System. [28] [29] The library was established by the museum in 1988, after George R. Gardiner donated 387 books, engravings, journals, and periodicals relating to the museum. [28]
Inside the museum, three floors of galleries surround a garden courtyard blooming with life in all seasons. The fourth floor was Gardner's private apartments, now used for administration, and rarely for exhibits. It is a common misconception that the building was brought to Boston from Venice and reconstructed. [16]
Salem, 1820. The Gardner–Pingree House is a historic house museum at 128 Essex Street in Salem, Massachusetts.It is judged to be a masterpiece of Federal architecture by the noted Salem builder Samuel McIntire, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972 for its architectural significance.
Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice (1894), by Anders Zorn (Gardner Museum). In 1874, Isabella and Jack Gardner visited the Middle East, Central Europe, and Paris. Beginning in the late 1880s, they frequently traveled across America, Europe, and Asia to discover foreign cultures and expand their knowledge of art around the world.
You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
George Ryerson Gardiner, OC (April 25, 1917 – December 7, 1997) was a Toronto businessman, philanthropist and co-founder of the Gardiner Museum, [1] the only museum in Canada devoted exclusively to ceramic art.
Helen Gardiner was born in 1938 in the Northern mining town of Kirkland Lake to a working family. She later moved to Toronto where her father was employed by General Electric . [ 2 ] In 1974, she began attending York University as a mature student, and in 1979, she travelled to London , England to study at Christie's Education .
New York City: Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Frick Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum, The Cloisters, Dahesh Museum of Art, Asia Society, Neue Galerie New York, Hispanic Society of America, Museum of the City of New York, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New ...