Cultivated landscapes: Chinese paintings from the collection by Maxwell K. Hearn

By Maxwell K. Hearn

This catalogue offers twelve impressive works by way of prime 15th- and sixteenth-century artists of the Wu college, headquartered within the cosmopolitan urban of Suzhou, by means of early Qing loyalist, Orthodox university, and individualist painters of the 17th and eighteenth centuries, and by means of twentieth-century masters. Richly illustrated and completely documented, every one paintings is analyzed to clarify its importance inside its time, position, and the artist's oeuvre.

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She visited the construction site every day and frequently battled with workmen over minor details, once climbing a ladder to show the plasterers how to redo the salmon-colored Th e C o n c e r t - 53 stucco so that it recalled the sun-dappled walls of Venice. “Never do anything you are not ordered to,” she barked. She often changed her mind: she had the façade altered, the foundation bricks moved, the main staircase put up and then taken down. But her willful efforts paid off. After walking through a narrow entrance, visitors step into a tall, airy courtyard steeped in sparkling light and flashes of color.

As a young woman, she read Shakespeare and practiced landscape painting. In her thirties, she studied Latin at Harvard with Professor Charles Norton and worked to establish the Boston Symphony Orchestra. With her snappy wit and eager mind, she became close friends with some of the most revered artists and intellectuals of her time, novelist Henry James, painter James Whistler, the writer Henry Adams. John Singer Sargent painted Gardner dozens of times over the course of her life, including a tragically beautiful watercolor just months before her death.

But her willful efforts paid off. After walking through a narrow entrance, visitors step into a tall, airy courtyard steeped in sparkling light and flashes of color. Italianate arches, ornate balustrades, lion stylobates surround the space; the garden overflows with greenery, jasmine trees, white azaleas, freesia, cineraria, orchids. The graceful, atmospheric space is one of the architectural gems of Boston, often cited as one of the most romantically beautiful places in the city. After the building was finished, Gardner spent another year installing her collection.

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