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“A Girl of Nabeul” by Caleb Arnold Slade (American) - Oil on brown paper / 1921 - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, Massachusetts) #WomenInArt #IsabellaStewartGardnerMuseum #GardnerMuseum #CalebArnoldSlade #Slade #PortraitofaGirl #Nabeul #Tunisia #art #artText #AmericanArt #AmericanArtist
A young girl fills the frame from the chest up, her head wrapped in layered cloth like a soft bonnet of wide blue-gray stripes alternating with pale bands, leaving a small triangle of dark hair visible at her crown. Her skin is medium-toned with a warm blush across the cheeks. The tip of her nose is slightly reddened, as if from sun or wind. Large, dark brown eyes catch the light with tiny highlights, looking past us to our left. Her mouth is closed, lips full and coral-pink, with a faint shadow at the corners that makes the expression feel guarded or somewhere between patience and reserve. A vivid red scarf is tied beneath her chin, its folds painted in quick, confident strokes. Gold hoop earrings arc along her cheek. She wears a dark charcoal outer layer over a white shirt. The background is an airy off-white, brushed thinly so the brown paper warms the surface. Paint is built up most densely in the face with soft transitions around the nose, eyelids, and chin while the head covering and clothing remain sketchier as visible brush marks and edges that blur into the background. The title places her in Nabeul, Tunisia, and a note on the back hints at how hard-won this sitting was. It mentions children’s “shyness of foreigners” and says that “offers of money or trinkets seldom” persuade one to pose. The wording exposes a colonial-era gaze of curiosity voiced as judgment, yet it also implies the girl’s power to refuse. Slade’s image adds no props or scenery so he stays close to her face and lets the averted eyes keep something private. Made during the period of French control in Tunisia, the portrait becomes a question about looking … and power. Isabella Stewart Gardner bought the work directly from American artist Caleb Arnold Slade in 1921, preserving this encounter.
January 13, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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I need some of these in my house gives off Resident Evil 4 vibes
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November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Keeping a candle burning for what was lost, the #IsabellaStewartGardnerMuseum still hangs the empty frames where the stolen paintings once were.

Silent reminders, waiting for their art to come home.
📷: Gardner Museum
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empty frames in fancy museum room
October 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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With the #LouvreHeist still making headlines, let’s explore another unsolved museum #Heist.

It’s just after 1AM on March 18, 1990, in Boston (a famously rowdy city on St. Patrick’s Day), when a security guard at the #IsabellaStewartGardnerMuseum opens the door to two men dressed as police officers.
a person is standing in a dark room with a blue light coming out of the ceiling
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October 23, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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October 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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John Tamilio on #junctiontrio performing the music of #johnzorn at the #IsabellaStewartGardnerMuseum: this was the coolest show in town — an afternoon of experimental music that highlighted their virtuosity as individual players and as a unit.

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Concert Review: Junction Trio Journeys Through the Demanding Sonic Terrain of John Zorn - The Arts Fuse
The Junction Trio offered the coolest show in town — an afternoon of experimental music that highlighted their virtuosity as individual players and as a unit.
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October 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. July 2025
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September 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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“El Jaleo” by John Singer Sargent (American) - Oil on canvas / 1882 -
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A flamenco moment becomes theater, architecture, and sound. American artist John Singer Sargent painted “El Jaleo” after sketching dancers and musicians during his 1879 visit to Spain; dozens of oil and graphite studies led to this grand, multi-figure composition. A wide, dark stage fills the scene. At center front, a woman in a flowing off-white skirt and dark shawl dances. Her left arm lifts high, fingers splayed; her right hand gathers her skirt as her foot braces to stamp. She is lit from below so her body throws stark shadows across a gray wall while a semicircle of guitarists and palmas (hand-clappers) drive the rhythm. Above them hang two brown guitars; below are red paint smears and handprints. The very title signals noise and encouragement: in flamenco, “jaleo” refers to syncopated clapping and shouted interjections like “¡olé!” that cheer on the performers and shape the pulse of the scene. When Sargent unveiled the painting at the 1882 Paris Salon, critics hailed its audacity; the scale, raking spotlight, and daring diagonals make you feel the stamping feet and snapped fingers. In Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner elevated that sensation into an environment: she set the canvas in a Moorish arch within her Spanish Cloister, flanked by a mirror that seems to extend the performance into the gallery and everyday objects that “spill” the staging into our space. According to Gardner lore, the setting so impressed her relative T. Jefferson Coolidge that he donated the painting to her when he saw it in place. Sargent’s palette of blacks, chalky whites, and earthen grays is punctuated by flashes of crimson: smeared handprints and spatters on the wall, the visual echo of shouted praise and percussive claps. Shadows amplify motion and sound without moving a brushstroke. The result is not a picturesque “Spain” but a study in how light, bodies, and communal rhythm conjure intensity that turns looking into listening.
September 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Édouard Manet painting of his mother at the #IsabellaStewartGardnerMuseum hangs on the wall in The Blue Room above an empty frame which used to house another Manet « Chez Tortoni ». Although there’s no way Manets mother would know about the theft, she looks disapproving nonetheless. #art #painting
August 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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2nd of July

Title: Tomb of a Knight
Artist: Ron Stafford
Medium: RAW digital print

#art #medevial #tomb #beauitful #Boston #isabellastewartgardnermuseum
August 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
wanderingheather.bsky.social
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. July 2025
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July 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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It’s even better in person
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June 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Ouch. Just ouch.

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May 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Benchwarmers

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May 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Snakes on a pane.

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May 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Picture in picture in picture.

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May 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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A portrait of four women in a museum.

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May 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Ms. Gardner put up with no tom-foolery from those Kodak fiends.

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April 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Marking time with beauty. Annual Nasturtiums at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston today.
April 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Lost in beauty and eccentricity #isabellastewartgardnermuseum #gardnermuseum #bostonmuseum #museum #artmuseum #boston #art
March 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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When the Nasturtiums are hanging @ the Gardner Museum you can almost convince yourself this country isn’t falling apart.
#IsabellaStewartGardnerMuseum #Boston #Nasturtiums #BriefRespiteFromInsanity
March 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Hanging nasturtiums return to Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
YouTube video by WCVB Channel 5 Boston
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March 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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March 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Some images that I took during my first trip to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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February 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Saw this at the #IsabellaStewartGardnerMuseum last month, in a show on Manet's very fucked-up family.
January 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM