伊莎贝拉•斯图尔特•加德纳博物馆的藏品数量惊人，包括**的绘画、珍贵的书籍、雕塑和装饰艺术，以及更多的个人物品，如收集的信件、伊莎贝拉自己的信件和书信。这本出版物反映了伊莎贝拉独特的画廊装置，利用美术和装饰艺术、照片和书信，提供了博物馆最初几年的时间快照，在这几年中，收藏品及其精心策划的空间激发了新的艺术作品。到了世纪之交，加德纳接受了越来越进步的妇女权利观，并对格雷琴•沃伦这一代人的教育、政治和职业抱负表示赞许。在沃伦身上，加德纳还发现了一位令她十分欣赏和**同情心的朋友。两位女性之间的18封书信首次在此出版，展示了她们35年的亲密友谊，这些书信分享了人生的欢乐、成功、艰辛和失落。本书是加德纳博物馆展览配套的 "近距离 "系列丛书中最新的一本，该系列丛书展示了加德纳博物馆杰出的**收藏品的各个方面。

The collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum includes an astonishing array of objects, including renowned paintings, rare books, sculpture, and decorative arts, as well as more personal items such as collected letters, Isabella’s own correspondence, and ephemera. Mirroring Isabella’s inimitable gallery installations, this publication uses both fine and decorative art, photographs, and correspondence to provide a snapshot in time of the first few years of the museum, in which the collection and its carefully curated spaces inspired new works of art. Gardner embraced an increasingly progressive view of women’s rights by the turn of the century and looked approvingly on the educational, political, and professional ambitions of Gretchen Warren’s generation. In Warren, Gardner also discovered a deeply appreciative and sympathetic friend. The eighteen letters between the two women, published here for the fi rst time, illustrate an intimate thirty-

five year friendship sharing life’s joys, successes, hardships, and losses. This publication is the latest in the Close Up series of books accompanying Gardner Museum exhibitions which showcase aspects of the museum’s outstanding permanent collection.