Chasing beauty : the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner /
Dykstra, Natalie,
Chasing beauty : the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner / Natalie Dykstra. - First edition. - 495 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-478) and index.
Prologue: Notes on a museum -- Part 1: Becoming belle. New York girl -- 'A far-famed city' -- Mr. and Mrs. Jack -- 'Remaining dear ones' -- Part II: Around the world. A return -- 'Mrs. Gardner's album' -- 'Zodiacal light' -- 'Millionaire bohemienne' -- The cosmopolitan -- Part III: Motion and light. The way of the traveler -- 'A whirlwind of suggestion' -- 'The fiddling place' -- Love and power -- Seeing wonder -- Part IV: Fancy things and ordinary objects. 'Dazzling' -- In the middle of things -- The concert -- To remake the world -- 'The age of Mrs. Jack' -- A poem -- 'List of things for the museum' -- 'I always knew where to find him' -- Part V: One-woman museum. Fenway court -- God is in the details -- Unfathomable heart -- 'Lonesome cloud' -- 'The whole interesting world of Paris' -- 'Undying beauty and light' -- Part VI: A dream of youth. Seeing and hearing modernism -- The dancer -- 'Blood and thunder' -- 'Very much alive' -- Spring -- Epilogue: Lacrimae rerum, or the tears of things -- Acknowledgments -- A note on sources -- List of illustrations -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Chronicles the life of the creator of one of America's most stunning museums-an American original whose own life was remade by art; includes archival photos of her world, museum and the art she collected.
9781328515759 1328515753
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924.
Art--Collectors and collecting--United States--Biography.
Women art collectors--United States--Biography.
Biographies.
Chasing beauty : the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner / Natalie Dykstra. - First edition. - 495 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-478) and index.
Prologue: Notes on a museum -- Part 1: Becoming belle. New York girl -- 'A far-famed city' -- Mr. and Mrs. Jack -- 'Remaining dear ones' -- Part II: Around the world. A return -- 'Mrs. Gardner's album' -- 'Zodiacal light' -- 'Millionaire bohemienne' -- The cosmopolitan -- Part III: Motion and light. The way of the traveler -- 'A whirlwind of suggestion' -- 'The fiddling place' -- Love and power -- Seeing wonder -- Part IV: Fancy things and ordinary objects. 'Dazzling' -- In the middle of things -- The concert -- To remake the world -- 'The age of Mrs. Jack' -- A poem -- 'List of things for the museum' -- 'I always knew where to find him' -- Part V: One-woman museum. Fenway court -- God is in the details -- Unfathomable heart -- 'Lonesome cloud' -- 'The whole interesting world of Paris' -- 'Undying beauty and light' -- Part VI: A dream of youth. Seeing and hearing modernism -- The dancer -- 'Blood and thunder' -- 'Very much alive' -- Spring -- Epilogue: Lacrimae rerum, or the tears of things -- Acknowledgments -- A note on sources -- List of illustrations -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Chronicles the life of the creator of one of America's most stunning museums-an American original whose own life was remade by art; includes archival photos of her world, museum and the art she collected.
9781328515759 1328515753
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924.
Art--Collectors and collecting--United States--Biography.
Women art collectors--United States--Biography.
Biographies.