Report of Activities and Giving: FY 2012

REPORT OF ACTIVITIES AND GIVING / 2011–2012

FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT 1 FROM THE DIRECTOR 2 CURATORIAL REPORTS COLLECTION AND CONSERVATION 4 CONTEMPORARY ART 6 EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS 8 LANDSCAPE 10 MUSIC 12 THE OPENING THE NEW BUILDING 14 THE CELEBRATIONS 16 THE PEOPLE 18 CAMPAIGN FOR THE GARDNER 20 REPORT FROM THE TREASURER 22 ANNUAL SUPPORT 24 TRUSTEES AND OVERSEERS 29 STAFF, VOLUNTEERS, INTERNS 30

FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT

On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I submit this report for Fiscal Year 2012, a time in which we opened the new wing of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

How do we begin to summarize all that has happened in this year without acknowledging, if not detailing, all that came before it? To enjoy a sublime concert in Calderwood Hall, I am called to imagine the earlier hall designs and the lively discussions with Renzo Piano and Yasu Toyota; conversations which would lead us here to an unusual and inspired space for music. To encounter a full year of changing exhibitions in the new gallery has meant the fulfillment of our idea of experimentation and exploration through the eyes of the Artists-in-Residence.

And to welcome so many new members, visitors, and donors to the Gardner Museum through a new lobby, Education Studio, and the divine Living Room has animated the conceptual for all of us who had learned to trust in the plans with which we had become so familiar. But, of course, the true testament to a successful opening year has been embodied in the experience of the Palace and collections without interruption, with a purity of experience that had been almost covered over but is now restored. As one architecture critic wrote, “The Gardner is still the Gardner, only better.”

The true testament to a successful opening year has been embodied in the experience of the Palace and collections without interruption, without coats, lines, or behind-the-scenes business, but instead with a purity of experience that had been almost covered over but is now restored.

I must congratulate our many partners in the process. Director Anne Hawley’s vision has helped the Museum navigate difficult economic times, and her energy has helped replenish it. My fellow board members have tirelessly articulated her plans, bringing their own strengths, sensibilities, passions, and their financial support to their advocacy for this remarkable institution. The Museum, more than just buildings and artworks, is also the people who staff it; and who, by contributing their own creativity and talent, make visiting the Museum into a profound and unforgettable experience.

This year, we announced great progress for the Campaign for the Gardner which not only helped to support the building project and Palace restoration but also secured the curatorial programming with strong foundations. All of the Museum’s cura­ torial posts have been endowed with gifts that will ensure the vibrancy and vitality of the curatorial areas. In addition to the earlier named positions — Esther Stiles Eastman Curator of Education and William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection, we can now add the Lisa and Tom Blumenthal Curator of Contemporary Art, the Ruettgers Curator of Landscape, and the Abrams Curator of Music.

And finally, I am pleased to announce that at the end of this Fiscal Year, I officially handed over the mantle of leadership for the Gardner’s Board of Trustees to our new Board President, Steve Kidder, an exceptional leader and passionate voice for the Gardner. Steve has been working alongside me and other board members for years and we all offer our appreciation for his outstanding service.

BARBAR A W. H OS TE T TE R President of the Board of Trustees

FROM THE DIRECTOR

This past year at the Gardner Museum, so full of history-making moments, recapitulates Isabella Stewart Gardner’s monumental intent for a museum: that it be “for the education and enjoyment of the public forever.” Now that we have restored many of the original galleries that Gardner invented and have opened a new wing which embraces the visitor with programs and amenities, the originating spirit flows through the Museum once again. This year we achieved new attendance records, showcased adventurous contemporary artists, and produced chamber concerts of sublime musicality in a new concert hall. But these “firsts,” as extraordinary as they are, capture only part of the story. The other part — the spirit of excitement that has animated Museum staff and visitors alike — is more difficult to convey, but just as important. I hope that this Report of Activities and Giving vividly illustrates both.

All of us who cherish the Gardner Museum have experienced a wonderful voyage of discovery. In the construction, completion, and, at last, our exploration of the new wing, designed by the boundlessly creative Renzo Piano, we have had the opportunity to encounter Isabella Gardner’s incomparable collection, and her inspiring legacy, as though for the first time. This is the very essence of Piano’s accomplishment. His design for our new wing, suffused with light through transparent walls, compels us to alter our perspective toward, and forge fresh connections with, a museum that we may have thought had nothing new to show us. But through Piano’s soaring glass walls we discover new dimensions of the Museum, which now provides purpose-built spaces for visitor orientation, education programs, musical performances and lectures, horticulture, and contemporary exhibitions. It is in these new spaces that the Museum’s far-ranging mission can truly flourish — but the wing is far from prosaic or merely practical. Inspired by Isabella Gardner’s extraordinary vision, Piano has created the necessary “magic,” as he put it, in the form of a building that is at once highly functional and sublimely poetic, that simultaneously asserts the Museum’s contemporaneity and honors and extends its profound and utterly unique legacy. I am deeply grateful for his commitment to this project, his intuitive understanding of Mrs. Gardner’s mission, and his graceful expansion of the Museum’s possibilities.

Isabella Gardner opened her collection to the public in 1903 because she desired Americans and Bostonians to savor undiluted beauty and art. She wanted her collection to be a refuge, an oasis, not just for a privileged few, but for everyone.

I am pleased to observe that Piano has honored and furthered this ambition.

The architect/client relationship is often imagined as a tug of ideas, wills, and vision. With Renzo Piano and a thoughtfully engaged building committee, the tug was more often a volley. While we often disagreed, occasionally fervently so, we

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Renzo Piano’s design for our new wing stops us in our tracks and compels us to reconsider our expectations of, alter our perspective toward, and forge fresh connections with a museum that we may have thought had nothing new to show us.

agreed that if we didn’t like a proposal we would say so, but not try to redesign it.

Renzo was the designer and would solve the problem. What you see in this building is his design tailored to our requests in his form. Together we held true to a guiding principle: the new wing, like the historic building, should be a work of art in its own right, unmistakably of the present but in lively conver­sation with the past.

When we began discussing a new wing, we knew that any proposed change to the Museum would worry some among the extended family of visitors, members, and our community who think of this place as home. Our responsibility to express the spirit of Isabella Gardner’s museum while providing, with every tool available, for its lasting preservation and accessibility was our mandate. The state and city agencies admirably held us to high standards. Mayor Thomas Menino, a champion for the arts and culture, gently guided us though the journey. As construction neared completion, I knew that we all had done it: the new wing would greatly expand opportunities for visitor engagement while maintaining, even enriching, the intimacy that makes the Gardner Museum such a special place. And when we opened our doors to the public on January 19, 2012, we only hoped that visitors and members would feel the same way. The lively opening exhibitions, the soldout concerts and lectures in Calderwood Hall, and the bustling programs in the education studio affirmed that Piano’s wing would fulfill its every goal. I am confident that it will allow this Museum, as Isabella Gardner always intended, to inspire, to educate, and to delight in perpetuity.

I am confident that the new wing will allow this Museum, as Isabella Gardner always intended, to inspire, to educate, and to delight in perpetuity.

None of this could have happened without the inimitable leadership of Barbara Hostetter, who, as President of the Board of Trustees, gave eloquent voice, passionate conviction, and tireless work to the project. She has been my true North Star and partner. While she leaves her post as President with a remarkable record of accomplishment, all of us in the Museum community are grateful that she will provide continuity in her continued leadership of the Campaign for the Gardner.

The entire Board, of course, guided the Museum through these exciting years, showing admirable confidence in the face of harrowing economic uncertainty.

Their devotion to this Museum, their dedication to Gardner’s legacy, and their tireless advocacy on behalf of the arts institutions that distinguish this great city inspire and invigorate us. Isabella Gardner’s collection is a gift to the people of Boston, and this Board has been its extraordinary steward. However, their work, and ours, has not ended, even with the seminal achievement of this new wing; the $180-million Campaign for the Gardner is ongoing, although great strides have been made. The final stretch, so close now, will not only ensure the pleasures of this collection for generations to come, but also underwrite the dreams of the curators as they venture into new frontiers of interpretation and programming.

But even as we look ahead to challenges and successes, we would be remiss not to pause, if only briefly, right where we are, to take stock of how far we have come, and to remind ourselves of why. In Renzo Piano’s light-filled wing, we have just the place for such contemplation and reflection. I look forward to seeing you there.

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Anne H awley Norma Jean Calderwood Director with Renzo Piano

COLLECTION AND CONSERVATION

publications

Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture, by Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong, ISGM, 2011 masterpiece lecture series 2012 February 23 From Les Demoiselles d’Avignon to Pour Your Body Out (7354 cubic meters): Two Takes, Glenn D. Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York March 29 El Jaleo and the French Connection, Richard Ormond, independent art historian and Director of the John S. Sargent Catalogue Raisonné Project

During this Fiscal Year, the Curator of the Collection focused on the completion of two major restoration projects while also researching and preparing for the Museum’s first historic exhibition in the new Hostetter Gallery. There were two major conservation projects completed to correspond with the opening of the new wing — the restoration of the Tapestry Room and the completion of the lighting project.

TAPESTRY ROOM REOPENS

A centerpiece of the Museum preservation project is the Tapestry Room, which has been restored to its original glory after being used for 85 years as a temporary concert and assembly hall. Using archival photographs and documentation, curatorial and conservation staff have returned the space to its configuration as a grand tapestry hall. Conservation treatment of the space included the cleaning of its Mercer-tiled floors, restoration of the French medieval stone fireplace, reinstallation of select art and furniture objects, replacement of historic textiles with reproductions, and new lighting.

New Conservation Labs

During the course of the year, the conservation staff spent a major proportion of its time moving into the new conservation labs in the new wing. The specially designed spaces, totaling 3,300 sq. ft., enable conservators to properly undertake the treatment of paintings, sculpture, furniture, and textiles from the collection.

With the new labs, the Conservation Department also increased its treatment and analytical capabilities with state-of-the-art equipment such as laser cleaners, infra-red digital imaging, x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, and reflectance

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April 26 Dionysus at the Gardner, Jas’ Elsner, Visiting Professor of the History of Art at the University of Chicago May 10 Of Masterpieces and Manure: The Garden as a Work of Art, Vittoria Di Palma, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University May 24 The Buddhist Chinese Stele, Robert D. Mowry, Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard Art Museums

transformation imaging. The in-depth study and research of the collection remains a significant aspect of conservation activities, as it informs expanded exhibition programs and the way treatments are done.

Courtyard Conservation Project

Objects conservators embarked on an ambitious project to stabilize and clean eight Greco-Roman sculptures in the most iconic of the Gardner Museum’s spaces, the central Courtyard (with seven more scheduled to be treated in the coming year). Over the years, maintenance of horticultural displays, combined with the return from the air handling system, left these sculptures dirty and darkened. Conservators used an innovative laser technique: the laser beam emits energy that is absorbed exclusively by dark materials, loosening dirt without damaging the pale marble surface. The Courtyard Sculpture Laser Cleaning Project has provided an excellent opportunity to educate visitors about ongoing conservation work at the Gardner Museum during the opening year of the new wing — a time of increased visibility for programs at the Museum.

Lighting Project

In January of 2012, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum completed an eight-year, $1.65-million initiative to upgrade lighting throughout the Palace. A designated lighting team, comprised of an independent lighting designer and members of the Museum staff, worked to balance four project goals: • Maintain an appropriate atmosphere for the Gardner Museum.

• Stay true to, or return to, Isabella Gardner’s intent for the use of light in the Museum.

• Protect the collection from excessive amounts of light and long-term exposure to light.

• Improve the visitor viewing experience.

The working process for each gallery included an extensive survey of lighting conditions, careful review of design proposals, mock-ups of various lighting options, and implementation of new systems. This resulted in achievement of the project goals through installation of new shades on all the gallery windows and the use of historically appropriate decorative fixtures and additional ambient lighting.

At times, meeting each of the designated goals was a seemingly impossible task.

The solutions in each gallery varied from simple to complex. In some cases only one fixture was added to a gallery; others required complete gallery de-installation for new wiring, installation of multiple fixtures, and ceiling repair. Recognizing that, in the future, preferences for lighting in the galleries and standards for energy efficiency may change, many choices were made with reversibility in mind. And, as with other preservation projects, the team learned that sometimes the best solution is simply to maintain what already exists. The Museum will continue to evaluate the new systems with a second survey of the lighting conditions and adjustments made based on staff and visitor feedback.

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CONTEMPORARY ART

Artists - in - Residence Natasha de Betak (France) OpenEnded Group: Paul Kaiser, Shelley Eshkar, Marc Downie (USA) Jean Michel Othoniel (France) Charmaine Wheatley (Canada) returning Artists - in - Residence

To inaugurate the new wing and celebrate the landmark twentieth anniversary of our Artist-in-Residence program, the Museum staged four exhibitions featuring the work of current and former Artists-­­ in-Residence. The exhibitions showcased the adventurousness of the artists who have called the Museum home and demonstrated the versatility of exhibition spaces in the new wing.

Hamra Abbas (Pakistan) Ackroyd & Harvey (UK) Stefano Arienti (Italy) Nancy Aronie (USA) Jebeesh Bagchi (India) Ambreen Butt (Pakistan) Luisa Lambri (Italy) David Ludwig (USA) Gregory Maguire (USA) Todd McKie (USA) Lee Mingwei (Taiwan) Abelardo Morell (Cuba) Victoria Morton (Scotland) Cesare Pietroiusti (Italy) Ana Prvacki (Singapore) Luisa Rabbia (Italy) Elaine Reichek (USA) David Wilson (USA) exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS

January 19 – May 28, 2012 Victoria Morton: (TAPESTRY) RADIO ON: New Work by Victoria Morton

Victoria Morton: (TAPESTRY) RADIO ON: New Work by Victoria Morton

January 19, 2012 – June 12, 2013 Stefano Arienti: Ailanthus

In the soaring Hostetter Gallery, Victoria Morton installed an environment of paintings and sculpture titled (TAPESTRY) RADIO ON: New Work by Victoria Morton. Appearing at first purely abstract, the work revealed traces of figures and movement with slight changes in light or position. The objects included in the exhibition were part of the expanded space of the paintings — a ladder, or a drum, or a dress, becomes something functional in a new way.

Points of View: 20 Years of Artists-in-Residence In the smaller gallery, Points

of View: 20 Years of Artists-in-Residence commemorated the seventy-four artists who have lived and worked at the Museum. The survey included works by Ackroyd & Harvey, Luisa Lambri, Todd McKie, Abelardo Morell, Luigi Ontani, Luisa Rabbia, Elaine Reichek, Dayanita Singh, Taro Shinoda, Su-Mei Tse, and Nari Ward, most of which had been produced for prior exhibitions at the Gardner, along with materials from the archives and the collection. Pieces were installed on the walls and housed in a series of drawers, which visitors could open to discover both the works and the source materials that inspired them.

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January 19 – August 13, 2012 Points of View: 20 Years of Artists-in-Residence at the Gardner January 19 – October 15, 2012 Luisa Lambri: Portrait (two of three seasonal installations) June 12, 2012 – January 2013 Stefano Arienti: Wild Carrot June 21 – August 20, 2012 Magic Moments: The Screen and the Eye Special Projects September 2011 – March, 2012 Ana Prvacki: Performing Daily Practice Ongoing since January 2012 Lee Mingwei: The Living Room Host Series January–June, 2012 Stefano Arienti, Libro Azzurro, 2011, a guest book for the Living Room

Magic Moments: The Screen and the Eye In June, nine Artists-in-Residence

were highlighted in Magic Moments: The Screen and the Eye. This series, in the main gallery, featured work by David Wilson (Bol’shoe Sovietskoie Zatmenia, 2009), Ackroyd & Harvey (Out of the Blue, 2012), Lida Abdul (In Transit, 2008), Cliff Evans (Empyrean, 2007), Henrik Håkansson (The 12th of Never [Extract from the Void], 2000), Su-Mei Tse (Mistelpartition, 2006), Dayanita Singh (File Room Slideshow, 2011), Luisa Rabbia (Travels with Isabella, 2008), and Melvin Moti (No Show, 2004).

Luisa Lambri: Portrait Photographer Luisa Lambri explored space, light, and

memory, as well as Isabella Stewart Gardner’s powerful and imaginative universe, in Portrait, a rotating, seasonal installation of new work in the Fenway Gallery of the historic building. Displaying the images in this way compelled viewers to consider the changing conditions of light, a distinctive characteristic of both the Museum and Lambri’s work. In addition, Lambri created an artist book, which features a selection of her photographic studies sequenced among extended excerpts from the diary of the Museum’s architect, Willard T. Sears (1837–1920), written during the time of the construction of the historic building.

Stefano Arienti: site-specific drawings and Libro Azzurro Exhibitions also

extended outdoors, with new works on the 36-foot-high by 16-foot-wide space on the south façade of the new wing. Stefano Arienti designed two site-specific drawings: a bright red Ailanthus, also known as the Tree-of-Heaven, a hardy, fastgrowing tree that embodies strength and virulence, and Wild Carrot, a simple and vigorous weed that explodes in celebration like an abstract firework. Arienti also produced Libro Azzurro, a guest book for the new Living Room orientation area, which featured his own drawings. Visitors were invited to contribute their own creativity to its pages, log memories of their visit, or simply sign their names. The entries will forever convey the spirit and culture of the opening year of the new wing.

HIGHLIGHTED PROJECT Cesare Pietroiusti: The Production and Free Distribution of Drawings During

the third week of January, Cesare Pietroiusti hosted a drawing workshop in the Education Studio. Each day of the week, visitors to the Museum were invited to create drawings out of surprising materials, such as salt water, tea, beer, or iron gall ink, to be distributed to the following day’s participants; thus, everyone taking part in the workshop had the opportunity both to create a drawing and to depart with one made by someone else. At the bottom of each work, Pietroiusti included a caption that limited ownership. The owner must give it to someone else within a certain time frame or under certain conditions. The work, inspired by a manuscript in the Gardner collection which carries the signatures of four illustrious individ­ uals (Edward Cheney, John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, and Isabella Stewart Gardner), illustrated the history of how an object can pass from one hand to another. Pietroiusti sold his last work in the early 1990s; since 2004 he has been working on The Production and Free Distribution of Drawings and has distributed approximately 100,000 drawings for free.

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January 16–22, 2012 Cesare Pietroiusti: Production and Free Distribution of Drawings Workshop* January 18, 2012 Dan Harvey: Greenhouse Classroom Plaster Relief Project* May 11–12, 2012 Heather Ackroyd: Boston Latin School Climate Action Summit* *in collaboration with the Education Department

Special Performances After Hours: Muscles of Joy performance in Calderwood Hall After Hours: Book of Wisdom and Lies, a state-of-the-art 3D projection with Ambisonic Sound featuring narration by David Wilson, musical accompaniment

by Eva Salina Primack and Merima Kljuco Talks & Programs Pieranna Cavalchini: Gallery Talk on Tapestry (Radio On) Pieranna Cavalchini: Gallery Talk on Luisa Lambri: Portrait Tiffany York: Gallery Talk on Tapestry (Radio On) David Wilson & Pieranna Cavalchini gallery conversation Publication Luisa Lambri: Portrait, ISGM, 2012 On The Web Ana Prvacki: Performing Daily Practice Tumblr blog, 2011–2012 Luisa Rabbia: Travels with Isabella microsite, 2012

EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS

visitor learning programs Total served: 26,223

Introductory Talks 165 programs; 7,456 attendees Public Tours 380 programs; 4,935 attendees Spotlight Talks 119 programs; 2,041 attendees Group Tours 539 programs; 11, 791 attendees Volunteers 162 individuals; 5,555 hours School programs Total served: 1,432 students; 108 teachers

School Partnership Program 2 schools: 1,219 students; 51 teachers 72 museum visits; 79 classroom visits; 298 teacher-led lessons

Starting in January, the Education Department rolled out a full roster of programs taking advantage of purpose-built spaces on the first floor of the new wing and reaffirming the Museum’s commitment to attracting an ever-broader audience and engaging it in new ways. The new wing gives visitors of all ages space and time to orient themselves; prepare for or process their visits; interact with volunteers, staff, and artists; and explore the expanses of their own creativity.

VISITOR LEARNING

Programming for general visitors increased dramatically in this watershed year, thanks to a volunteer force that has grown from around 100 to over 160. Intro­ ductory talks are now given twice daily (except on Sundays) in Calderwood Hall, and tours focusing on architecture (including the Museum’s “green” initiatives) and collection highlights are offered every weekday. Tours conducted by the 43 Museum Teachers were in high demand throughout the spring. On weekend days, Spotlight Talks, highlighting one Museum masterpiece, engaged visitors in lively discussions about art and arrangement.

The Living Room is the hub for visitor learning. Volunteers answer questions, distribute tour tickets, and direct visitors to books or electronic resources available in the room. Inspired by the 2000 exhibition by Artist-in-Residence Lee Mingwei and designed with his help, the Living Room features “hosts” several days a week who bring examples from a personal collection — of baseball cards, beach rocks, mementoes from family trips — and share their passion with interested visitors.

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Other Boston school collaborations 3 schools: 213 students; 57 teachers 14 museum visits; 8 teacher-led lessons community programs

Community Partnership Program 6 partners; 93 students; 16 adults Neighborhood Nights Thursdays, July 7 & 21, August 4, 2011; 1,020 attendees Opening Our Doors Day Monday, October 10, 2011; 1,008 attendees Highland Street Foundation Free Fun Friday June 29, 2011; 1,850 attendees The Studio 43 programs; 4,227 attendees PUBLIC programs

Gardner After Hours 6 programs; 3,519 attendees Masterpiece Lectures 5 programs; 967 attendees

SCHOOL AND TEACHER PROGRAMS

While student Museum visits were limited this year to early fall and late spring during construction, the staff of the School Partnership Program worked with students and teachers at their schools, and continued collecting data that will allow the Museum to track the impact of its program on students’ linguistic and analytic skills from pre-school through eighth grade.

In the second half of the year, the Museum partnered with the Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Sciences and the Hernández K–8 School. “From Here to There,” the debut installation on the Linda Cabot and Ed Anderson Student Art Wall, highlighted the work of third-grade students from the Tobin School who took photographs as they walked from their school to the Museum, using the observation skills developed through art discussion to describe the urban landscape. The greenhouse classroom and the Education Studio also buzzed with activity as Dan Harvey and Heather Ackroyd worked with Boston teens from the after-school program Boston Youth Climate Action Network to make plantbased art and explore how artists incorporate issues of climate change into their work. A community visioning session about Boston Latin School’s proposed green roof attracted teens from across Boston to share ideas.

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

The opening of the Education Studio, the first space purpose-built for visitor and student creativity, began a new chapter in education programming. Available to school and community groups during the week, the Studio offers visitors of all ages the chance to experiment with art materials and ideas. For the premiere program in the Studio, Cesare Pietroiusti created a project based on the passage of art from the artists’ studio through a succession of collectors’ hands. Under Pietroiusti’s guidance, visitors produced over 3,500 drawings using a range of unusual mate­ rials. Now the Studio is open for drop-in activities every Saturday and Sunday.

The Studio was also the site of this year’s Community Creations exhibition, on display all summer, introducing visitors to the variety of ways the Museum inspires students in the Community Partnership Program.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

The Museum’s usually dense schedule of fall programming, including the popular Gardner After Hours, was abbreviated this past year, while the Tapestry Room underwent a complete renovation, and the Museum was closed from November 15, 2011, through January 18, 2012, to prepare for the opening of the new wing.

To complement the opening exhibitions focusing on contemporary art, the Museum introduced the Masterpiece Lectures series, highlighting treasures from the collection. Glenn Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, launched the series by investigating the idea of the artistic masterpiece through time; other expert speakers reexamined the provenance and significance of particular works in the Gardner collection.

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EXPANDED HOURS With the opening of the new wing, the Museum announced new hours offering greater access to both local visitors and tourists. The Museum is now open on Mondays, to accommodate visitors during long weekends, and is open late every Thursday, instead of just once a month.

To celebrate the opening, Thursday evenings were heavily programmed with a signature mix of art, music, and conversation. Avant Gardner, Landscape Lectures, Gardner After Hours, and Masterpiece Lectures delighted, challenged, and inspired visitors as part of revitalized Thursday programming.

LANDSCAPE

Maeder-York Family Fellowship in L andscape Studies “The new Maeder-York Family Fellowship in Landscape Studies at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum provides a platform to recognize and support emerging design talent in landscape and builds upon the Gardner’s Artist-in-Residence programs that have fostered creativity and collaboration for over two decades.”

— Anne Hawley, Norma Jean Calderwood Director, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum October 6, 2011: Call for applications October–December 2011: Ninety-one applications received from 14 countries; five finalists selected

In the past year, landscape programming and initiatives focused on contemporary landscape practice. Landscape programs engaged new audiences with the centrality and relevance of contem­porary landscape to design culture, urbanism, and the arts today — an aspiration complemented by the opening of the new wing.

January 19, 2012: Takuma Ono selected Fellowship Jury: • Julie Bargmann, University of Virginia • Alan Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Anita Berrizbeitia, Harvard University • Julia Czerniak, Syracuse University

The Courtyard was spectacular for the January opening of the new wing, and displays of flowering plants throughout the year engaged visitors, drawing them back to the Museum time and again with their beauty, diversity, and contemplative calm. The art and practice of horticulture has been given a new prominence in the constellation of Museum offerings with the onsite greenhouses that are part of the new wing.

MAEDER-YORK FAMILY FELLOWSHIP IN LANDSCAPE STUDIES

This fellowship was established to recognize an emerging design talent whose work articulates the potential for landscape as a medium of design in the public realm. This new initiative will continue to recognize and foster emerging design talent from across the design disciplines in future years.

Takuma Ono was selected to be the first Maeder-York Family Fellow. He began his three-month residency at the Museum on the evening of June 7, 2012, in a con­ versation with Charles Waldheim about his work.

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• Anuradha Mathur, University of Pennsylvania • Jane Wolff, University of Toronto

LANDSCAPE LECTURES

The Landscape Lectures series has flourished in its new home, Calderwood Hall, as world-renowned landscape architects Peter Walker and Michael Van Valkenburgh have both spoken before captivated audiences. The series is intended to broaden the field of landscape and influence the development and growth of cities.

Peter Walker, founding partner of PWP Landscape Architecture, offered the first lecture, Monuments and Memorials, to a sold-out hall on February 9, 2012. Walker spoke about his work, including a moving description of the design process for his recently completed landscape for the National 9/11 Memorial in New York City.

On April 12, 2012, Michael Van Valkenburgh, founder and president of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, one of the nation’s leading landscape architecture firms, delivered the second lecture of the series. He described the incredible range of his accomplishments, from large-scale parks, such as the Brooklyn Bridge Park, to his small, sustainable Teardrop Park, built for urban children, also in New York City. At the lecture, Anne Hawley announced that Van Valkenburgh had been commissioned to redesign the Museum’s Monks Garden, the cloistered garden adjacent to the historic building and connected to the exterior gardens that surround the new wing.

COURTYARD DISPLAYS

For the January 2012 Museum reopening, the Courtyard display was a celebration of tropical and subtropical plants featuring more than thirty large jade plants, Crassula argentea. Raised in the Gardner greenhouses, the largest, with trunks five to six inches in diameter, are over forty years old. During January they bloom with small, starry white flowers.

The January and February orchids included our traditional lady’s slippers, and clumps of maroon and white Phaius tankervilleae orchids, a large terrestrial orchid from Southeast Asia. The cultivation and display of this extraordinary orchid is the continuation of a tradition that dates to 1876.

The Hanging Nasturtiums were especially spectacular this year with full twentyto thirty-foot-long vines hung from the third-floor Courtyard balconies — another beloved tradition begun by Isabella Gardner. In the garden below, orange and yellow Clivia, blue cineraria, ivory and cream daffodils, and Cymbidium orchids were placed against a lush green background of ferns and palms.

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MUSIC

Performers at the Gardner

Music at the Gardner Museum was given a spectacular new home with the completion of the new wing and the opening of Calderwood Hall in January. The 296-seat “sonic cube,” in the words of Music Director Scott Nickrenz, was designed by architect Renzo Piano and renowned acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota to embrace musicians and audiences alike.

Three balconies enclose and overlook a centrally located performance floor made of Alaskan yellow cedar. With only a single row of seating in the balconies, everyone in the audience has an opportunity to hear established and emerging artists with surprising intimacy, and to watch them perform from a new perspective. The balconies feature elegant red chairs against oak paneled walls with laser cut slits to enhance the acoustic experience. The floating balconies have glass fronts so that one might view the performers below from a variety of perspectives.

The design is at once elegant and bold — the perfect complement to the music the Museum has brought to audiences for years. As Nickrenz recalls of the most recent year of programming, “There’s no question that the 2012 winter concerts ushered in a new era — an era of discovery, innovation, and the marriage of our artists with our unique concert space.” Calderwood Hall is quickly becoming a launching pad for new artists, as well as a venue that welcomes the return of Gardner favorites like the Borromeo String Quartet and the Claremont Trio. Musicians have experimented with placing themselves in the non-traditional space while audience members have explored the different balconies to find their favorite spots. The new wing also boasts space for performers in a new green room and an instrument storage area large enough for the grand piano.

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Aaron Goldberg, piano A Far Cry, chamber orchestra Anonymous 4, vocal ensemble Steven Beck, piano Benjamin Beilman, violin Art Blakely Ensemble, jazz ensemble Borromeo String Quartet, classical ensemble Callithumpian Consort, new music ensemble Cory Cerovsek, violin Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, classical ensemble Claremont Trio, classical ensemble Jeremy Denk, piano Martina Filjak, piano David Fulmer, violin and viola Gregory Hutchinson, drums International Contemporary Ensemble, new music ensemble Paavali Jumppanen, piano Jupiter String Quartet, classical ensemble Michael Kannen, cello Sooyun Kim, flute and piccolo George Li, piano Cecile Licad, piano Yo-Yo Ma, cello Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, soprano Musicians from Marlboro, classical ensemble Carol McGonnell, clarinet New York Festival of Song, vocal ensemble Irina Nuzova, piano Matt Penman, bassist Musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Institute, classical ensemble Joshua Redman, saxophonist Paula Robison, flute Ron Savage Berklee Trio, jazz ensemble Markus Schirmer, piano Yekwon Sunwoo, piano Wendy Warner, cello Lawrence Watson, director

Sunday Concert Series Highlights of the winter 2012 season included the open-

ing celebration performances given by Jeremy Denk, Yo-Yo Ma, Paula Robison, and A Far Cry. The Claremont Trio gave two world premieres of compositions

by Sean Shepherd and Helen Grime, each work written in honor of Calderwood Hall’s opening. Additionally, the Borromeo String Quartet completed their cycle of Beethoven String Quartets, while sixteen-year-old pianist and Young Artists Showcase first-prize winner George Li made his Boston debut with works by Beethoven, Czerny, and Chopin.

Jazz at the Gardner Director Lawrence Watson’s Tribute to Lena Horne featured

some of Berklee’s most talented voices and the Workforce Band in a celebration of Horne’s incredible legacy.

Avant Gardner The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) returned

to the Gardner to perform the music of Kaija Saariaho, an acclaimed Finnish composer whose work explores the sonic complexities between live music and electronics.

Resident Chamber Orchestra A Far Cry returned during the 2012 winter season with guest artist pianist Marcus Schirmer in a performance featuring AustroGermanic composers from Schmelzer to Schoenberg.

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THE NEW BUILDING

Bekenstein Family Lobby

Dorothy Hundley Magee Greenhouse

Richard E. Floor Living Room

Claire and John Bertucci Education Studio

Anne Hawley Grand Stair

John J. Egan, Jr. Corridor

Hostetter Gallery

Exterior view from the Palace

Calderwood Hall

OPENING CELEBRATIONS

january 12–14 : PREVIEW PARTieS In celebration of the opening of the new wing, donors, patrons, members, and special guests were invited to a series of evenings, each featuring a special concert performance in Calderwood Hall and opportunities to meet Artists-in-Residence.

Jack Gardner and Bill Poorvu

Alli and Bill Achtmeyer

David Scudder

Judith Malone and Steve Kidder

Jane and Neil Pappalardo

RoAnn Costin, Barbara Millen, Katherine Chapman, Corinne Grousbeck

Lisa Blumenthal, Ellie and Brian Chu, Anne Hawley, Tracy Palandjian

Amy and David Abrams

Jackie and Bill Egan

Maureen and Michael Ruettgers

John and Claire Bertucci

Cynthia and John Reed

Josh and Anita Bekenstein

Ray Hammond and Gloria White-Hammond

Joyce and Bill Fletcher

Paul Maeder, Jenny McAuliffe, Gwill York, Tony McAuliffe

Bill Egan, Anne Hawley, Barbara Hostetter, Musci Baglietto, Renzo Piano

january 14 : Exhibition openings In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Artists-in-Residence program, the Gardner opened the new wing with a series of special projects by AIRs including exhibitions, installations, workshops, an interactive guestbook, and a site-specific public art project.

Tom and Lisa Blumenthal Curator of Contemporary Art Pieranna Cavalchini

Cesare Pietroiusti: The Production and Free Distribution of Drawings

Lee Mingwei: Living Room

TAPESTRY (RADIO ON): New Work by Victoria Morton

january 19 : RIBBON CUT TING

Mayor of Boston Thomas M. Menino, Anne Hawley, Barbara Hostetter, Bill Egan

january 19 : GARDNER AFTER HOURS OPENING BASH Festivities continued well into the night with a special Opening Bash marking the resurgence of Gardner After Hours, complete with live music, photo booth, and much more.

DJ in Courtyard

Andrew and Jessica Nigrelli

Guests mingle while exploring the special exhibition by Victoria Morton

Artist-in-Residence Victoria Morton’s band, Muscles of Joy, performs in Calderwood Hall

Revelers celebrate with a toast in the Living Room

january 19–21: BANK OF AMERICA DAYS For three days, the public was invited to experience the new wing and the restored galleries for free during the Bank of America Free Days.

Staff welcome guests at the admission desk

Visitors meeting with a Living Room host

CAMPAIGN FOR THE GARDNER

Development and campaign committee David Scudder, Chair Barbara Hostetter, Chair Friends of the Collection Howard Stevenson Joseph Koerner Bill Poorvu Friends of Contemporary Alli Achtmeyer Lisa Blumenthal Barbara Hostetter Friends of Education Anita Bekenstein Beth Pfeiffer Friends of L andscape Maureen Ruettgers Gwill York

The Campaign for the Gardner has made great strides since our last report. Structured to both support the construction of the new Renzo Piano wing and also raise funds for programs and additional endowment, the campaign stands at 86% complete as of October 2012, with just $24.5 million left to raise against a total goal of $180 million.

Our sincerest thanks to the many donors who have been so generous. As of this printing, ninety-four donors have supported the campaign with gifts of $100,000 or more. All gifts, of every size, have helped to realize a vision for the future for the Gardner —a vision that secures the preservation of an outstanding collection while also presenting vibrant and contemporary programming for a growing audience. Over the past 12 months, leadership gifts have included endowment gifts for key curatorial positions. Each of the five curatorial posts that lead the work in education, landscape, contemporary art, historic art, and music have now been endowed. Other recent highlights include major capital gifts, recognized with several named spaces throughout the new wing.

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Friends of Music Katherine Chapman RoAnn Costin Corinne Grousbeck

CAMPAIGN donors

Anonymous (10) Amy and David Abrams Allison and William Achtmeyer Pamela and Robert Adams Mr. and Mrs. Richard Anders Dorothy and David Arnold Mr. Ben and Mrs. Meghan Balbale Anita and Josh Bekenstein Mr. Stephen A. Bell Claire and John Bertucci Tom and Lisa Blumenthal Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Bodman Willa and Taylor Bodman Dr. Barbara Millen Boyer and Dr. Markley H. Boyer Peter and Anne Brooke Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Susan W. Cable and Benjamin A. Gomez Cabot Family Charitable Trust Linda Cabot and Edward Anderson Calderwood Charitable Foundation Rebecca B. Gardner Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Campion Lewis Cantley and Vicki Sato Ellie and Brian Chu Mr. Steven J. Collins Mr. and Mrs. J. Linzee Coolidge Lawrence Coolidge and Nancy Coolidge Cutler, Dana and Goodhue Families Brit J. d’Arbeloff Laura DeBonis and Scott Nathan Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. DeMore The Estate of Gloria E. Distasi Robert W. Doran and Evelyn H. Doran Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky Paul and Sandra Edgerley William and Jacalyn Egan Nina and David Fialkow William C. and Joyce K. Fletcher Mr. and Mrs. Robert Freeman Frieda Garcia Mr. and Mrs. John Lowell Gardner Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Gilbane III Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Gilbert Andy P. Goldfarb and Stephanie Harvey Mr. and Mrs. John T. Grady Hanne and Jeremy Grantham

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Grousbeck Family Foundation Gloria White-Hammond and Ray A. Hammond The Hassenfeld Foundation Mr. F. Whitney Hatch III and Dr. Elizabeth E. Hatch Mr.* and Mrs. Francis W. Hatch Mr. and Mrs. William W. Helman John and Trevania Henderson Arnold Hiatt Bob and Kristine Higgins Mr. Steven H. Holtzman Mr. and Mrs. T. Eric Hopkins Barbara and Amos Hostetter The Hon. Julian T. Houston and Mrs. Susan L. Houston Institute of Museum and Library Services Elisabeth and George Ireland Rachel Jacoff Drs. Paula A. Johnson and Robert A. Sands Abigail P. Johnson and Christopher McKown Darlene and Jerry Jordan Robert and Marjie Kargman Paul D. Kazilionis Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kettenbach Stephen W. Kidder and Judith A. Malone Dr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Koerner Mrs. Renée M. Landers Joyce and Edward Lawrence Miss Wallace Minot Leonard Foundation Sherry and Alan Leventhal Leon Levy Foundation Anthony* and Monique Liuzzi Caleb Loring, Jr. Ms. Anne R. Lovett and Mr. Stephen G. Woodsum Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Lyman The Lynch Foundation George and Ann Macomber John F. Magee Gregory Maguire and Andy Newman Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund Jennifer Toolin McAuliffe and E. Anthony McAuliffe Jeffrey and Christine McCormick The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Laura and Bruce Monrad Caroline Mortimer and Richard Grubman National Endowment for the Humanities

Jessica Gifford Nigrelli Kathryn and Bob O’Connell Robert and Elizabeth Owens A. Neil and Jane Pappalardo Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Pamela Peedin and Paul Rebuck Beth K. Pfeiffer Timothy Phillips Dr. Stephanie Pinder-Amaker and Mr. Thomas H. Amaker Plimpton Shattuck Fund William and Lia Poorvu The William and Lia G. Poorvu Family Foundation Marcia J. Radosevich, Ph.D. John S. and Cynthia L. Reed Foundation Elaine* and Jerome* Rosenfeld The Ruettgers Family Annagret and Alexander Sacerdote Richard and Diane Schmalensee Laurie M. Scott Marie Louise and David Scudder Thomas G. Stemberg Charitable Foundation Fredericka and Howard Stevenson Mr. and Mrs. James M. Stone Meg Tallon Mr. and Mrs. James L. Terry Laurie and Peter Thomsen Nick and Joan Thorndike Nancy B. Tieken The Richard C. von Hess Foundation Steven and Jennifer Walske Elizabeth Weir Wilderness Point Foundation Janet Hostetter Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Winthrop Lynne* and Frank Wisneski Miriam M. Wood and Charles O. Wood III Gwill York and Paul Maeder Brace Young Yuriko Young Henri Zerner * deceased

REPORT FROM THE TREASURER

The Museum’s short- and long-term financial health continues to be strong.

Total net assets at the end of Fiscal Year 2012 were $221.8 million, a 3% increase from FY11. This increase is primarily a result of sustained progress on the capital campaign in support of the new wing which opened in January 2012, as well as continued support from our members, visitors, and institutional partners.

As financial conditions for cultural institutions have become increasingly challenging and complex, the Museum is grateful to the three Board committees that ably oversee its financial operations: Finance, chaired by Brian Chu; Investment, chaired by Bill Helman; and Audit, chaired by John Bertucci.

The following is a consolidated Statement of Financial Position and Statement of Activities; complete audited financial statements are available from the Museum upon request.

Gwill York Treasurer

BALANCE SHEET

JUNE 30, 2012

JUNE 30, 2011

Cash and Cash Equivalents 5,107,000 Pledges and Other Receivables (Net) 11,980,000 Inventories 228,000 Prepaid and Other Assets 641,000 Short-term Investments 10,771,000 Museum Property (Net) 120,636,000 Investments of Endowed Funds 115,424,000

2,929,000

Assets

Total Assets

13,843,000 102,000 665,000 28,615,000 98,750,000 114,590,000

$ 264,787,000

$ 259,494,000

Liabilities

Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses Bonds Payable

6,972,000

7,684,000

36,190,000

36,190,000

Total Liabilities

43,010,000

43,877,000

91,898,000

72,759,000

65,107,000

87,099,000

64,772,000

55,759,000

221,777,000

215,616,000

$ 264,787,000

$ 259,494,000

Net Assets

Unrestricted Temporarily Restricted Permanently Restricted Total Net Assets Total Liabilities and Net Assets

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STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES

JUNE 30, 2012

JUNE 30, 2011

Revenue and Other Support

Sales and Service Grants and Gifts Annual Fund Membership Special Events Investment Income and Net Appreciation

2,461,000

1,516,000

21,651,000

14,347,000

1,821,000

1,793,000

800,000

303,000

853,000

555,000

–2,548,000

18,808,000

Total Revenue and Other Support

25,038,000

37,321,000

2,212,000

1,816,000

2,598,000

2,129,000

1,135,000

752,000

2,870,000

2,619,000

2,529,000

2,381,000

Expenses

Security and Museum Services Public Programs Collection, Interpretation, and Conservation Development and External Relations Administration Special Projects Facilities and Maintenance Depreciation Interest Expense

1,513,000

706,000

1,372,000

946,000

3,541,000

776,000

1,108,000 -359,000

Total Expenses

18,878,000

11,767,000

Change in Net Assets

$ 6,160,000

$ 25,554,000

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ANNUAL SUPPORT 2011–2012

INDIVIDUAL GIFTS Our sincerest thanks to Friends of Fenway Court Patrons, Young Patrons, Members, and Annual Fund donors who so generously supported the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum during the period of July 2011 through June 2012.

This vital annual giving helped to underwrite concerts, historic and contemporary exhibitions, horti­ cultural displays, education and community programs, lecture series, the residency program, care of the collection, and daily operations.

$50,000+

Amy and David Abrams Pamela and Robert Adams Mr. and Mrs. Josh Bekenstein Claire and John Bertucci Tom and Lisa Blumenthal Willa and Taylor Bodman Ellie and Brian Chu Ms. RoAnn Costin and Mr. James N. Bailey Brit J. d’Arbeloff Mr. and Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. Elisabeth and George Ireland Dr. Barbara Millen and Dr. Markley H. Boyer Mr. and Mrs. A. Neil Pappalardo Mr. and Mrs. John S. Reed Maureen and Michael Ruettgers Marie Louise and David Scudder Nancy B. Tieken Gwill York and Paul Maeder $25,000+

Anonymous Katherine Chapman and Thomas Stemberg Laura DeBonis and Scott Nathan Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Edgerley William and Jacalyn Egan Mr. and Mrs. David Fialkow

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William C. and Joyce K. Fletcher Mr. and Mrs. John L. Gardner Andy P. Goldfarb and Stephanie Harvey Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. G. Grantham Mrs. Francis W. Hatch Mr. and Mrs. William W. Helman Stephen W. Kidder and Judith A. Malone Michael Krupka and Anne Kubik Gregory Maguire and Andy Newman Beth K. Pfeiffer William and Lia Poorvu Marcia J. Radosevich, Ph.D. Annagret and Alexander Sacerdote Wendy Shattuck and Samuel Plimpton Fredericka and Howard Stevenson $10,000+

Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. William F. Achtmeyer Mr. and Mrs. Ben and Meghan Balbale Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Campbell Steven J. Collins Mr. and Mrs. John P. Connaughton Mr. and Mrs. Joel Cutler Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Fraser Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Gilbane III Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Gilbert

Vivien and Alan Hassenfeld Mr. F. Whitney Hatch III and Dr. Elizabeth E. Hatch Anne Hawley and Urs Gauchat John and Trevania Henderson Arnold Hiatt Dr. Rachel M. Jacoff Abigail P. Johnson and Christopher McKown Holly and Bruce Johnstone Mr. and Mrs. Gerald R. Jordan Robert and Marjie Kargman Charles Koch and Cynthia Fisher Mrs. Anthony Liuzzi John Magee Jennifer Toolin McAuliffe and E. Anthony McAuliffe Laura and Bruce Monrad Caroline Mortimer and Richard L. Grubman Jessica and Andrew Nigrelli Elizabeth and Robert Owens Erica and Ted Pappendick Vincent Ryan and Carla Meyer Lewis Cantley and Vicki Sato Arthur Segel and Patti Saris Dana and Robert Smith Theresa M. Stone and Charles F. Stone III Mr. and Mrs. James M. Stone

Meg Tallon Peter and Laurie Thomsen Wat and Jane Tyler Mr. and Mrs. Herbert S. Wagner III Frank V. Wisneski and Lynn Dale Frederic E. Wittmann and Christine Kondoleon Miriam M. Wood and Charles O. Wood III Stephen G. Woodsum and Anne R. Lovett $5,000+

Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Richard Anders Mr. and Mrs. John Avery Mr. and Mrs. George D. Bell Brant C. Binder Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Bronner Paul and Katie Buttenwieser Mr. and Mrs. Jay M. Cashman Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Champion Paul A. Cohen Lawrence Coolidge and Nancy Coolidge Mr. and Mrs. John M. Cornish Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. DeMore Mr. and Mrs. William C. Fuller Mr. and Mrs. Graham D. Gund Celeste E. Hughey Richard M. and Priscilla S. Hunt Elizabeth L. Johnson Marina Kalb Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Kemper Mr. and Mrs. Randy E. Kinard Debra Smith Knez Joyce and Edward Lawrence Kathryn and Bob O’Connell Geoffrey and Laura Rehnert Sally Reid and John Sigel Charles Rendeiro Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Ribakoff, II Mrs. Peter M. Sacerdote Professor and Mrs. William A. Sahlman Richard and Diane Schmalensee Mr. and Mrs. Raymond S. Stata Mr. and Mrs. Paul Verrochi Steven and Jennifer Walske Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Winthrop $3,000+

Anonymous Robert J. Adams and Meg P. Succop Stephanie L. Brown

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Dr. C. Russell de Burlo, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas B. Deane Mr. and Mrs. Eugene B. Doggett Emily Cross Farnsworth Courtney and Michael Forrester Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hess Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Hood II James D. Houghton and Connie B. Coburn Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Johnson IV Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Kania, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Lyons Mr. and Mrs. Howard Messing John J. Petrowsky and Tom Vise Jeanne D. and Donald R. Stanton David B. Thurston Mr. and Mrs. Eliot Wadsworth II Henry Birdseye Weil Ashley H. Wisneski $2,000+

Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Steven P. Akin Mr. David and Dr. Sharman Altshuler Aaron Bates Dinah Buechner-Vischer Mr. and Mrs. R. William Burgess, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis P. Cabot Mrs. Fay Chandler Mr. and Mrs. Gerald C. Chertavian Heidi Cox Michael J. Cuggino Mr. and Mrs. John J. Cullinane Wayne C. Davis and Ann Merrifield Mr. and Mrs. Philip Y. DeNormandie Elizabeth Floor Mr. and Mrs. Christopher F. O. Gabrieli Mrs. G. Peabody Gardner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Gifford Diane Gipson/The Tianaderrah Foundation Susan W. Cable and Benjamin A. Gomez Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Gran Michael and Nancy Grogan Roy and Christine Hirshland Mr. and Mrs. Roland E. Hoch Mrs. Marilyn Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. James R. Houghton Emily Hughey Mark Jensen and Lisa Martin Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Johnson, 3d

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kettenbach Mr. and Mrs. Gordon F. Kingsley Dr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Koerner Michael and Cindy Macmillan Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Matlack Mr. and Mrs. George McCabe Lucy Moon-Lim and Richard Lim Victoria S. Munroe and Eric Saltzman Mr. and Mrs. Ofer Nemirovsky Mr. and Mrs. Richard Olney III Pamela Peedin and Paul Rebuck Gerald Pier and Susan Bennett Dr. Stephanie Pinder-Amaker and Mr. Thomas H. Amaker Mr. and Mrs. George Putnam, Jr. Christine H. Rossell Julie A. Scallen Scott A. Schoen Dr. Robert B. Straus Mr. and Mrs. W. Nicholas Thorndike Dr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Thornhill Ellen Wilson $1,000+

Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Albright Mr. Robert Amory, III Dorothy and John Aram Mr. and Mrs. David B. Arnold, Jr. Katharine L. Auchincloss Victoria J. Avery Anne and James Bailey Estate of Cynthia Barrington Lucille M. Batal Barbara Bayliss Robert Beal Mr. and Mrs. Henry and Jean Becton Nancy J. Beeuwkes Lisa A. Bevilaqua Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Brostowski Ellen and Ronald Brown Stacey and Richard Brown Peter Bryant Margaret K. Burchenal and Daniel Reagan Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence R. Burtschy Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Campion Charles S. Carignan and Michael Cerruti Kurt and Mary Cerulli Germaine and Michael Choe Gerald and Susan Cohen

Dr. William C. Towne and Mr. Alan R. Collachicco Mr. and Mrs. Prescott B. Crocker Oliver and Cynthia Curme Mrs. Philip Cutler Dr. Allyson R. Davies Mr. and Mrs. Miguel de Braganca Deirdre Doherty Therese M. Doherty and Scott E. Hershman Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Doran Derek Fantini Mr. and Mrs. Steven S. Feinberg Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin R. Flaim Robert and Jeanne Gable Ms. Frieda Garcia and The Hon. Byron Rushing Mr. and Mrs. M. Dozier Gardner Clifton Gaskill Jennifer Glanville Joan P. Goldhammer-O’Neil and Gerald F. O’Neil Robert S. Hagge, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry A. Hausman Paul and Francine Healey Dr. Howard H. Hiatt Sturtevant and Christina Hobbs Eloise W. and Arthur C. Hodges Albert A. Holman, III and Susan Stickells Hiro Iwanaga Candace Jans Susan B. Kaplan Jill and Stephen Karp Cleon T. Knapp and Betsy W. Knapp Edgar Knudson and Louis Mula Mrs. Waltrud A. Lampe Mr. and Mrs. David G. Lavallee Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas W. Lazares Jonathan B. Loring Ian and Isabelle Loring William A. Lowell, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Lyman Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Martignetti

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James and Mary Ellen McCabe Mary and Don Melville Cathryn Mercier Paul Milbury Meg Miller Richard P. Morse and Claire Morse Foundation Gregory Morzano Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Nicholas Maureen O’Brien Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Panarese Mr. and Mrs. John Parker Anthony and Katharine Pell Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Press Robert and Mandie Preyer Heidi Pribell Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rathbun Mr. and Mrs. William J. Regan, III Mr. and Mrs. Mark V. Rickabaugh Karen Rosenkrantz John and Lorinda Russell Frederick and Kathleen Schultz Amy Shinn Allen and Lee Sinai Andrew Spindler Theodore E. Stebbins and Susan Ricci Margaret Sullivan, TTE, James P. Sullivan, Jr. Living Trust Benjamin and Katherine Taylor Pamela J. Toulopoulos Lisa Tung and Spencer Glendon Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan M. Uhrig Gina Ventre and Scott Forbes Peter and Pamela Voss Mr. and Mrs. E. Denis Walsh Jill Ann Ward Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Weed Russ Wiggin and Genevieve Pluhowski Natalie W. Williams Dr. Marshall A. Wolf and Dr. Katharine Wolf Bracebridge H. Young

TRIBUTE GIFTS

In honor of Anthony Amore

In memory of Anne Hiatt

In honor of Scott Nickrenz

Mary-Lou Kiley

Dr. Marshall A. Wolf and Dr. Katharine Wolf

In honor of Jess Chloros

In honor of Barbara W. Hostetter

Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Gray Sally Wardwell and Allen Wardwell

Andrew and Carolyn Spangler

James and Hanna Bartlett Anita and Josh Bekenstein Claire and John Bertucci Tom and Lisa Blumenthal Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Bodman Ellie and Brian Chu Laura DeBonis and Scott Nathan William and Jacalyn Egan William C. and Joyce K. Fletcher Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Fuller Mr. and Mrs. John Lowell Gardner Anne Hawley and Urs Gauchat Arnold Hiatt Robert and Marjie Kargman Stephen W. Kidder and Judith A. Malone Mr. and Mrs. Alan M. Leventhal William and Lia Poorvu Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rathbun John S. and Cynthia L. Reed Foundation Amy Wilson Scott and John Scott Marie Louise and David Scudder Plimpton Shattuck Fund Laurie and Peter Thomsen Janet Hostetter Wilson Miriam M. Wood and Charles O. Wood III

In memory of Alexander V. d’Arbeloff

Brit J. d’Arbeloff In honor of William P. Egan

Elizabeth Floor In honor of Anne-Marie Eze

Arthur Fournier In memory of Arlene B. Feingold

Benjamin and Beverly Weiner In honor of Nina S. Fialkow

Debra Smith Knez In honor of John L. Gardner

Louann Penzo Frederick and Bonnie Shaw In memory of George P. Gardner

Walter Longstreet Deane Eaton Vance Corporation Mr. and Mrs. George R. Frick Arnold and Wendy Jones Peter and Constance Lacaillade Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Martignetti Robert J. Muldoon Jr. William and Lia Poorvu Frederick and Bonnie Shaw Sherin and Lodgen LLP Ronald and Mary Skates James O. Welch Jr. Mr. Samuel H. Wolcott, III In honor of Anne Hawley

Holly and Bruce Johnstone Tzedakah Fund (Bernard and Sue Pucker) Doris Y. Yaffe

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In honor of Stephen W. Kidder

Phyllis Simpkins In memory of Anthony Liuzzi

Monique Liuzzi In honor of Kelsey Merriam

Nancy Brodsky In honor of Matt Montgomery

Clementine M. Brown

In memory of May Poorvu

Dr. Marshall A. Wolf and Dr. Katharine Wolf In honor of William J. Poorvu

Carnegie Corporation of New York In honor of Judith A. Schurgin

James Seder and Debra Ross Samuel Spiegel and Marilyn Stone Herbert J. Stacks In honor of David W. Scudder

Farms Fiduciary Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Ernst H. von Metzsch In honor of Wendy Shattuck

Anne and James Bailey In honor of Howard H. Stevenson

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Fuller Hansjoerg Wyss In memory of Elliott H. Stone

Lisa Prior In honor of Natalie W. Williams

Nancy Gardiner In memory of Elizabeth Wetter

Cathy K. Hudson In honor of Charles O. Wood III and Miriam M. Wood

John J. Petrowsky and Tom Vise In honor of Gwill E. York

Laura and Kenneth Morse

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORTERS Thank you to the following Foundations, Government Agencies, and University and Corporate Partners who so generously supported the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with gifts, or matching gifts, during the period of July 2011 through June 2012.

This vital annual support helped to underwrite concerts, historic and contemporary exhibitions, horticultural displays, education and community programs, lecture series, the residency program, care of the collection, and daily operations.

$100,000+

$10,000+

$5,000+

Bank of America Charitable Foundation The Barr Foundation Calderwood Charitable Foundation

The Baupost Group, LLC The Caleb C. and Julia W. Dula Educational and Charitable Foundation Edwin S. Webster Foundation Harvard University J.P. Morgan Private Bank Thomas A. Pappas Charitable Foundation, Inc. Procter and Gamble Rowland Foundation, Inc. Schrafft Charitable Trust State Street Foundation Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Welch & Forbes

Citizens Bank Roy A. Hunt Foundation Massachusetts Institute of Technology Paratus Group Reynolds R. and Pamela M. Smith Foundation The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation

$50,000+

Fidelity Investments, Inc. First Republic Bank Massachusetts Cultural Council $25,000+

Admirals Bank Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation Highland Street Foundation JPMorgan Chase Foundation TD Bank Financial Group Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust

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$2,500+

Berklee College of Music The Boston Conservatory Carnegie Corporation of New York The Cue Ball Group, LLC Eaton Vance Corporation Farms Fiduciary Corporation MIT Council for the Arts Old Mutual Asset Management Sotheby’s

TRUSTEES AND OVERSEERS

board of trustees

board of overseers

David W. Scudder, Chairman Barbara W. Hostetter, President Stephen W. Kidder, Secretary Gwill York, Treasurer Anne Hawley, Norma Jean Calderwood Director

RoAnn Costin, Chair

Amy Abrams Allison Achtmeyer Anita Bekenstein John Bertucci Lisa Blumenthal Brian Chu RoAnn Costin, ex officio Brit d’Arbeloff Laura DeBonis William P. Egan William C. Fletcher Rev. Dr. Ray A. Hammond William Helman John Henderson Joseph Koerner Dr. Barbara Millen Jane M. Pappalardo Beth K. Pfeiffer Marcia Radosevich John S. Reed Maureen Ruettgers Howard H. Stevenson

LIFE TRUSTEES

John L. Gardner, Chairman Emeritus Dr. Samuel W. Bodman Frieda Garcia Arnold S. Hiatt Judge Julian Houston William J. Poorvu Vincent J. Ryan Wendy Shattuck James L. Terry Steven Walske Charles O. Wood III Henri Zerner

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Richard Anders Meghan Balbale Stephen Bell Taylor S. Bodman Rebecca Gardner Campbell Heather Campion Katherine Chapman Steven J. Collins Lawrence Coolidge John M. Cornish Edward L. DeMore Nina Fialkow Robert Freeman Thomas F. Gilbane III Paul B. Gilbert Andy Goldfarb Benjamin Gomez John T. Grady Corinne Grousbeck Vivien Hassenfeld Francis W. Hatch III Kathryn A. Hopkins Rachel Jacoff Abigail Johnson Paula A. Johnson Darlene L. Jordan

Marjie Kargman Randy Kinard Renee Landers Joyce M. Lawrence Arthur D. Little R.J. Lyman John F. Magee Gregory Maguire Jennifer Toolin McAuliffe Jeffrey McCormick Bruce Monrad Caroline Mortimer Jessica Gifford Nigrelli Kathryn O’Connell Elizabeth Owens Pamela Peedin Tim Phillips Stephanie Pinder-Amaker Annagret Sacerdote Vicki Sato Richard Schmalensee Arthur Segel C. F. Stone III Cathleen Stone Meg Tallon Laurie Thomsen Nancy Tieken Jonathan Winthrop Frederic Wittmann

STAFF, VOLUNTEERS, INTERNS

staff Archives

Lisa Long Feldmann Shana McKenna Conservation

Olivia Bowser Jessica Chloros Theresa Fredette Marina Gibbons Amanda Grondin Gisele Haven Alanna Nelson Colleen O’Shea Jennifer Ortiz Gianfranco Pocobene Holly Salmon Emily Shafer S. Robin Siegel Valentine Talland Contemporary

Pieranna Cavalchini Amanda Esteves-Kraus Valerie Moon Tiffany York Curatorial

Anne-Marie Eze Joseph Saravo, Jr. Oliver Tostmann Development

Susan Adams Rachel Bennett Lisa Bevilaqua Kirstin Gamble Bridier Karaugh Brown Lauren Budding Melissa Carpenter Mary DePalma Erika Gislason Renana Greenberg Kelsey Merriam Maureen O’Brien Chelsea Rathbun Kirra Steel L. John Steigerwald Emily Vince Director’s Office

Courtney Allen

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Anne Hawley Jessie Schlosser Smith Natalie Williams Education and Public Programs

Julia Brucker A. Kate Bullen Margaret Burchenal Julie Crites Jennifer Deprizio Sara Egan Michelle Grohe A. Sofia Lazo Herrera Jessie Schlosser Smith Johnetta Tinker Meghan Weeks Event Rentals

D. Kimberly Rzemien Julia Vose Facilities

Susan Colby David Blair Ava Davies Derek Fisher Michael Holland Althea LaTray Andrew Mix Corey Murphy Megan Prebensen Alex Tennyson Reginald Williams Finance Office

Sarah De Guzman Tiarra Gabriel Noah Schneiderman Russ Wiggin Horticulture

Salvador Campos Albert Giordani Taylor Johnston Edward Kozak Stanley Kozak Bonnie Thryselius Human Resources

Stacey Whitney Brown Margaret Duffy Sarah George Information Services

Douglas Cunningham

Kevin Kenkel Brian Wills Landscape

JoAnn Robinson Ann Uppington Charles Waldheim/Urban Agency Marketing

Gregory Albers Michael Busack C. Andrew Keys Julianne Kiley Matthew Montgomery Andrew Reilly Padilla Membership

Courtney Allen Lance Brisbois Hailey Conneely Jenna DeLuca Rachel Hacunda M. Lynn Swain Museum Store

Ada Bernstein Danielle Fanelli Danielle Freiman Courtney Kasianowicz Amanda McKeever Beth Olsen Susan Paino M. K. Wong Music

Abby Anderton Brittany Duncan R. Scott Nickrenz Joan Provencal Operations

Peter Bryant James Labeck Kendra Slaughter Planning

Lieza Dagher Registration

David Kalan Amanda Prugh Venezia Security

Anthony Amore Renato Baraggia Thomas Bassett

Derick Birdsall John Cashman Keith Chausse Matthew Dinaro John Egan Laura Flammia William Forristall Jason Freedman Michelle Freitas Tiarra Gabriel Elizabeth Gallagher Angela Gavin Kirk Girard Emily Giroux Amanda Grondin Molly Hoisington Bitson Jean Alan Jennings Iyoko Mitsuda Laffin Andrew Landauro Joseph Ledoux Daniel Legmann Mark Leshchinskiy Stefanie Maclin Michael Madden Dereck Mangus Nashid Mateen Jasmannie Ortiz Ryan Pitt Sarah Pobuk Jeffrey Poindexter Alan Poliakoff Matthew Rice Brad Ruka Douglas Seigars Taulant Shkoza Heather Short Bruce Skaler Kevin Smith Anthony Sobiech Kathrine Starbird Richard Steele Erika Stigliano Valerie Suber Joshua Taylor Jeremy Valadez Matthew Whittaker Redha Yaici Robert Zeiller Shakkar Zimmerman

Visitor Services

Kristina Bauman Rebecca Camerato Jill Conley Gillian Cook Tara Daly Anastasia Doherty Jessica Durant Donna Evans Danielle Fanelli Lucy Gray Lindsay Ladner Kevin Monahan Kalimah Muhammad Mariya Nikiforova Agnieszka Orlowska Kate Parsons Kristin Pishvanov Jesse Potwin Giustina Renzoni Laura Seretta Prabhat Shrestha Valerie Suber Wanessa Tillman volunteers

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Abitbol: pp. 1, 3, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13 left + middle, 14 center right, 16 top row + bottom right, 17 center rows + bottom left, 18, 19; Sean Dungan: p. 4; courtesy Ron Henderson: p. 10 top; © Nic Lehoux: front + back cover, inside front cover, pp. 14 top left + bottom row, 15 top left + bottom, 20, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29; courtesy Takumo Ono: p. 10 portrait; Cheryl Richards: pp. 13 right, 14 center left, 15 top right, 16 center row + bottom left, 17 top row + bottom right; Siena Scarff: p. 11 sidebar top + bottom, inside back cover; Dayanita Singh: p. 7 [File Room (detail), 2011. Courtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London.]; courtesy Michael Van Valkenburgh: p. 11 bottom portrait; courtesy Peter Walker: p. 11 top portrait DESIGN — Julie

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