Report of Activities and Giving: 2014-2015 by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

2014–2015

REPORT OF ACTIVITIES AND GIVING

03 Letter from the Board President 05 Letter from the Director CURATORIAL REPORTS 06 The Collection 10 Conservation 14 Contemporary Art 18 Education and Public Programs 22 Landscape 24 Music FINANCIALS AND SUPPORTERS 26 Report from the Treasurer/ Statement of Financial Position/ Statement of Activities 28 Annual Support 31 Campaign for the Gardner 34 Membership at the Gardner 35 Trustees and Overseers 36 Staff, Museum Teachers, Volunteers

â&#x20AC;&#x153; The Museum continues to prioritize its commitment to audiences, both physical through on site programming, and virtual through digital resources. â&#x20AC;? STEVE KIDDER

LETTER FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT

This year finds the Museum on the cusp of change. Change it is prepared for following the successful completion the $180 million Campaign for the Gardner and the Long Range Planning process. The Campaign of the Gardner raised funds for the building of the spectacular new wing by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, critical funds for preservation and the Museum’s endowment, and an Innovation Fund to launch new programs. The Long Range Plan sets a course for experimental and innovative programming over the next five years, while also examining the financial and governance infrastructure of the Museum, assuring that the Museum remains on solid footing as we chart a course for the future. The Museum continues to prioritize its commitment to audiences, both physical through on site programming, and virtual through digital resources. The year’s historic exhibition demonstrated the Museum’s passion for bringing aspects of the collection in a new scholarly light through the Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors’ Drawings from Renaissance Italy which used the Museum’s Baccio Bandinelli’s Self-Portrait as a springboard to pose the question of why sculptors draw. On the contemporary side, Jean-Michel Othoniel’s Secret Flower Sculptures showcased the range of the artists-in-residence program and how Isabella Gardner’s collection continues to impact creativity. Finally, the landscape installation of Ken Smith’s Fenway Deity provided a beacon for visitors approaching the Museum from the Fenway. The Museum was not exempt from the harshness of New England’s recordbreaking snowfall and it became apparent that the scheduled upgrade of the Museum’s roofs would need to be accelerated. Although this project will be a significant undertaking over the forthcoming year, the project will not have an adverse impact on the Museum as the costs are covered by the Museum’s capital replacement fund. Finally, after 26 years, Anne Hawley, Norma Jean Calderwood Director, announced her decision to step down at the end of 2015. Through her extraordinary leadership, we find the Museum in an excellent position in which to undertake our search for a new director. Steve Kidder Board President

“ There is so much possibility ahead for this Museum, which is both sanctuary and workshop in today’s world. ” ANNE HAWLEY

LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

It’s late in the evening as I am about to depart. The Museum has closed for the day, and no one is here. I am sitting on the steps of the Courtyard reflecting on all these years and what we have done. Of course, the magic of the Courtyard weaves its spell, transporting me to dreaming. It is this rendezvous with beauty in the Courtyard garden which begins the journey into the Museum but actually into your heart. In this last of my annual reports you will read the highlights of the past fiscal year where we piloted new programming for our visitors: launching a new musical series: RISE, a project-based artist residencies that interact with the public, experimenting with digital technologies, and planning for multi-disciplinary programs where several art forms collaborate to foster new ways of thinking and seeing. There is so much possibility ahead for this Museum, which is both sanctuary and workshop in today’s world. It’s hard to say goodbye to you and to this museum of infinite possibilities. For the past twenty-six years, I’ve had the privilege to lead a re-creation of its buildings and programs bringing back the artistic life the founder choreographed here. Doing so in our time with this talented staff, dedicated trustees and overseers, and a supportive membership and community has been immensely gratifying to me. Warmly, Anne Hawley Norma Jean Calderwood Director

THE COLLECTION True to the Museum’s mission statement, the Collections department has continued “to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection…” with programs and publications that share new scholarship with visitors near and far. With the second historic exhibition in Hostetter Gallery, the curators have shed light on an often overshadowed painting, Baccio Bandinelli’s Self-Portrait in the Museum’s Titian Room. In the painting, the prominent Florentine sculptor curiously points not to his most famous public monument, but rather to a drawing of it, making it the perfect springboard to address the role of draughtsmanship in sculptors’ working practices in Renaissance Italy.

Included in the exhibition Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors’ Drawings from Renaissance Italy (clockwise from above): Benvenuto Cellini, Satyr, 1543-45, Pen and brown ink on paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington and Satyr, 1543-45, Bronze, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Baccio Bandinelli, Hercules (detail), 1560, Red chalk on paper, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence. Satyr (detail), 1543-45, Bronze, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Andrea del Verrocchio, Measured Drawing of a Horse Facing Left, 1481-88, Pen and brown ink on paper and Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Design for an Equestrian Monument, c. 1483-84, Pen and brown ink on paper, both Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

EXHIBITIONS

23 October 2014 – 19 January 2015 Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors’ Drawings from Renaissance Italy The ground breaking exhibition Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors’ Drawings from Renaissance Italy, co-curated by Michael Cole, Professor of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art History at Columbia University, and Oliver Tostmann, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum, was the first to comparatively explore the graphic practices of sculptors in Renaissance Italy. Loans of drawings and sculptures from Europe and across America joined Bandinelli’s Self-Portrait and Michelangelo’s striking Pietá drawing from the Museum’s Short Gallery. Highlights included objects that have never before been exhibited in America, including Benvenuto Cellini’s bronze relief Perseus and Andromeda from the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence and the only drawing related to the relief from the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The exhibition was accompanied by a publication with contributions from 26 scholars, a study day, and lectures.

Exhibitions October 23, 2014 – January 19, 2015 Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors’ Drawings from Renaissance Italy

Publications Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini. Sculptors’ Drawings from Renaissance Italy by Michael Cole et al, ISGM, 2014 Inventing Asia: American Perspectives Around 1900. Fenway Court, vol. 33 by Alan Chong and Noriko Murai, ISGM, 2014

THE COLLECTION

ACCESS TO THE COLLECTION

Lectures & Special Programs

In preparation for future digital initiatives that will give global audiences access to the collection, the Collections department is systematically cataloging and photographing the Museum’s holdings of fine art, rare books, and Mrs. Gardner’s more personal assembly of collected letters, correspondence, memorabilia, and photographs. A fully catalogued and digitized collection will ensure the Museum’s capacity to present special exhibitions, complementary programming, and in-gallery interpretive tools, that explore and encourage new ways of thinking about art and culture. The cross-departmental team, led by Christina Nielsen, the William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection, has completed the first two years of the ten year project compiling information for 1,600 collection objects and new photography for over 300 objects. As part of this first phase, the department launched the Virtual Reading Room on the Museum’s website making Gardner Museum publications and collection information available to scholars and art enthusiasts alike.

2014 October 23 Lecture: Baccio Bandinelli’s Self-Portrait, or How to Paint a Sculptor’s Portrait Oliver Tostmann, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art October 26, October 30 Gallery talks: Collection Conversations: The Naked and the Dead Peggy Burchenal, Esther Stiles Eastman Curator of Education and Public Programs

Screenshot of Virtual Reading Room.

THE COLLECTION

November 4 Study Day: Sculptors’ Drawings from Renaissance Italy Featuring in-gallery discussions led by: Carolina Mangone, Lecturer and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University John Marciari, Charles W. Engelhard Curator and Department Head, Prints and Drawings, Morgan Library and Museum Eike Schmidt, Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Minneapolis Institute of Arts Cammy Brothers, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Virginia

NEW APPOINTMENTS

Nathaniel Silver In January 2015, Nathaniel Silver was appointed Assistant Curator of the Collection. Most recently, he co-organized the current exhibition Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice. Dr. Silver holds an MA and PhD from the University of London. From 2010-2013, he worked at The Frick Collection where he curated the exhibition Piero della Francesca in America. Dr. Silver has held fellowships at the National Gallery of Art, Kunsthistoriches Institut in Florence and the Fondazione Cini in Venice. He has published and lectured widely in the field of Renaissance art, with articles, reviews and letters appearing in the New York Review of Books, The Burlington Magazine and I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance.

Casey Riley Casey Riley joined the department in May 2015 as a Curatorial Research Fellow. Dr. Riley has recently completed her doctorate in American Studies at Boston University. Her expertise in early 20th century material culture and the topic of her dissertation, Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Photographic Albums and the Development of her Museum, 1902-1924, make her an asset to the Museum.

Luke Syson, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Curator in Charge of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art November 8 Conversation: The Work of Art Rona Pondick, sculptor, and Gianfranco Pocobene, John L. and Susan K. Gardner Chief Conservator; moderated by Peggy Burchenal, Esther Stiles Eastman Curator of Education and Public Programs December 11 Lecture: Could Renaissance Sculptors Draw? Michael Cole, Professor of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art History at Columbia University

2015 January 10 Conversation: The Intimate Letters of Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo Carmen Bambach, Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Ramie Targoff, Professor of English and Co-Chair of Italian Studies at Brandeis University; moderated by Christina Nielsen, William & Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection

CONSERVATION In keeping with its long established commitment to preserving the collection and historic building to the highest standard, the Conservation Center undertook significant conservation treatments and projects on a variety of objects, paintings, and textiles. Functioning in its state-of-the-art facilities, Conservation successfully performed in-depth technical analysis on a number of works of art in support of conservation treatment initiatives, exhibitions, and loans. Research and planning for a comprehensive restoration of the Raphael Room was also a primary focus. Significant efforts by Conservation over the past year also supported planning and preparation for the de-installation required by the upcoming 2015-16 roof repairs in the Tapestry Room, Little Salon, and Short Gallery. Conservation worked closely with Collections on an extensive photography project with the goal of documenting works of art with high resolution digital images. Much of Conservationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work involved the important task of executing remedial reframing treatments for paintings and works of art on paper during photography. In textiles, Elsbeth Dijxhoorn joined the staff as Assistant Textiles Conservator in support of the Raphael Room restoration project. Matthew del Grosso was hired as a Collection Care Associate, bringing greater attention to gallery appearance issues and alleviating a number of duties from Conservation, thereby allowing conservators to concentrate their efforts on treatment and research.

RESTORATION OF THE RAPHAEL ROOM As part of ongoing in-depth research and planning for the restoration of the Raphael Room, textiles, objects, and paintings conservators collaborated with the curator of the Collection on the upcoming restoration of Raphael Room. Led by Tess Fredette, commissioning of replicas to replace old, non-original fabrics was begun, reinstating the appearance of these materials to the appearance intended by Isabella Gardner. Originally, the walls featured a pastiche of eighteen different patterns of Spanish or Italian (17thâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;18th century) red silk damasks and velvets that Gardner installed creating rich and highly varied visual and textural effects. Conservation has begun work on number of objects, paintings, and re-upholstery projects that will dramatically transform the appearance of the Room. A highlight of the project is the commissioning and reproduction weaving of a multi-colored late 19th century jacquard fabric for a suite of chairs and settee that adorn the center of the room.

Above: Raphael Room as it appears today with 1950s damask wall fabric soon to be replaced with historically accurate patterns. Left: Jessica Chloros applying adhesive with a fine brush to re-attach flaking paint on the 15th century polychrome and gilded wood Magus figure. The sculpture, which is displayed in the Gothic Room, was also fully cleaned and analyzed.Â Paint analysis revealed a different original color scheme as well as raised metal leaf decoration that imitated rich brocaded textiles.

CONSERVATION

OBJECTS

PAINTINGS

Four polychrome and gilded wood sculptures from Gothic Room – including the large Magus figure were treated. Several of these treatments included significant scientific analysis. Two major gilded frames were also treated: the tabernacle-style frame for the Crivelli panel painting and the frame for the Sargent portrait of Charles Martin Loeffler. Treatment and research continued on important manuscripts from the collection in preparation for the upcoming fall 2016 manuscripts exhibition.

Gianfranco Pocobene carried out a comprehensive restoration treatment of Carlo Crivelli’s, St. George Slaying the Dragon. The technical study revealed fascinating aspects of Crivelli’s meticulous facture which was revealed through a variety of imaging and analytical techniques. Most notable among the technical findings was the artist’s use of extensive underdrawing, the elaborate and skillful use of “pastiglia” relief elements, and the confirmation that in addition to conventional gold ground techniques, silver leaf, now tarnished, was originally used as a prominent form of ornamentation in the picture. The insights gained during the restoration, along with the painting itself, feature prominently in the Gardner Museum’s upcoming, historic exhibition Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice as well as an essay written for the exhibition catalogue.

Jessica Chloros, Holly Salmon, and Valentine Talland published a paper titled, “Laser Cleaning at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: 16 Roman Sculptures: 14 Months and 3 Conservators” in the peer-reviewed conservation journal, Studies in Conservation. Testing and documentation of the Farnese Sarcophagus in preparation for an upcoming exhibition was initiated. The objects lab also organized and hosted a laser cleaning workshop in conjunction with Lynton Lasers for New England conservators, Holly Salmon co-organized a laser cleaning workshop at the American Institute for Conservation annual meeting, and Jess Chloros organized and hosted an XRF analysis workshop for the Gardner Museum and Museum of Fine Arts conservators.

Gianfranco Pocobene lectured on Giuliano da Rimini’s Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints at the Andrew Ladis Trecento Symposium, Georgia Museum of Art and Piero della Francesca’s Hercules at an international symposium on Piero della Francesca at the Courtauld Institute, London. He also co-presented and instructed London area conservators on Erbium YAG lasers and their potential use on paintings and gilt frames.

CONSERVATION

TEXTILES

STOUT CONSERVATION LECTURE

Completing a project spanning two years, the textiles conservators addressed the last four tapestries from The Story of Cyrus and The Story of Abraham series in the Gardner’s Tapestry Room made possible by the successful award of an IMLS grant. Working with Royal Manufactures De Wit in Belgium, Tess Fredette oversaw the comprehensive treatment which dealt with improvement of their appearance through cleaning and re-establishing planarity, strengthening the structural instabilities in the cloth, adding support backing and new Velcro hanging systems, and the reduction of future handling by a newly designed wall attachment system.

Held each year in honor of George L. Stout, Director of the Gardner Museum from 1955-1970 and one of the founders of the modern discipline of art conservation, the Stout Memorial Lecture celebrates excellence in preservation and understanding cultural heritage.

Ongoing refurbishment of gallery textiles focused on the commission and installation of an exact reproduction of a 19th century Japanese brocade that originally spanned the Bermejo and Velazquez paintings in the desk area of the Tapestry Room. The reproduction fabric, which features alternating rows of phoenix, 3-clawed dragons, and auspicious symbols on a diaper ground, was woven by a hand-weaver based in Tokyo, Japan who specializes in the reproduction of ancient Japanese textiles and the techniques once used to produce them.

Hélène Dubois Rediscovering the Ghent Altarpiece, on the conservation and technical discoveries of the brothers van Eyck’s iconic altarpiece, The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb.

From left to right: Holly Salmon cleaning the tabernacle-style gilded frame for Carlo Crivelli’s St. George Slaying the Dragon. Gianfranco Pocobene, John L. and Susan K. Gardner Chief Conservator cleaning varnish and grime layers from the surface of Crivelli’s St. George Slaying the Dragon in preparation for the exhibition, Ornament and Illusion, Carlos Crivelli of Venice. David Kalan and Matt Del Grosso re-installing Rebecca Gives Water to Abraham’s Servant from The Story of Abraham tapestry series on a new pulley system.

CONTEMPORARY ART The Museum’s renowned Artist-in-Residence program draws individuals from different parts of the world and builds a growing collective of considered points of view. Since 1992, eighty-eight artists have come from twenty-six countries with an equally diverse range of disciplines: from photography to dance to fashion to installation art. These residencies have perpetuated the legacy of the Museum as a public resource for scholarship and creativity in the tradition of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s salon on the Fenway. Artists use their time to research and reflect, but they also nourish the Museum, sharing their unique perspectives on the collection, the archives, the buildings, and the world beyond the Museum in lectures and conversations with the community. Their time here often culminates into new work, sometimes immediately, sometimes years later, but the experience has a profound and long-term effect.

Jean-Michel Othoniel, Peony, the Knot of Shame, 2015. Photo: George Bouret

Jean-Michel Othoniel, Rose des Vents, 2015. Photo: George Bouret

CONTEMPORARY ART

New Artists in Residence Bill Cunningham (USA) Ivana Franke (Croatia) Barbara Lynch (USA) Helen Mirra (USA) Rachel Perry Welty (USA)

Returning Artists in Residence

Nari Ward, Divination X Photo: George Bouret

Luisa Rabbia: Waterfalls Photo: George Bouret

Carla Fernández (Mexico) Susan Howe (USA) Bharti Kher (India) Lee Mingwei (Taipei/USA) OpenEndedGroup (USA) Jean-Michel Othoniel (France) Luisa Rabbia (Italy/USA) Barry Schwabsky (USA) Nari Ward (Jamaica/USA) Charmaine Wheatley (Canada)

Exhibitions JEAN-MICHEL OTHONIEL: SECRET FLOWER SCULPTURES

March 12 – September 7, 2015 Jean-Michel Othoniel, known internationally for his monumental sculptures of blown glass and metal, returned to the Museum with an exhibition of work conceptualized during his 2011 residency. While at the Museum, Othoniel became intrigued by a rare 1701 book at the Boston Public Library. Raoul-Auger Feuillet’s The Art of Describing Dance visually illustrates Louis XIV’s dance steps at the Court of Versailles. This inspired Othoniel to submit, and ultimately win, a bid with landscape designer Louis Benech to create the first permanent contemporary art installation in the Versailles gardens. Secret Flower Sculptures featured Othoniel’s sketches and models for the Versailles commission that opened in May 2015 as well as new works that explored the artist’s obsession with the hidden meanings of flowers. Othoniel created several lithographs and a large-scale sculpture in glass for the Hostetter Gallery. Peony, the Knot of Shame contained 222 glass beads and was the first artwork to be suspended from the ceiling in Hostetter. Outside the Museum, La Rose des Vents, a kinetic sculpture in gold and aluminum, was installed on the Tapestry Hall roof overlooking the Monk’s Garden. The artist also assembled his own personal tour of the Museum in a book titled The Secret Language of Flowers. Visitors used the book and a companion map to search the flora in the tapestries, architecture, furniture, and paintings in the collection and discover their symbolic meanings.

April 17 – September 1, 2014

Carla Fernández: The Barefoot Designer: A Passion for Radical Design and Community (Hostetter Gallery)

June 2014 - January 6, 2015

Luisa Rabbia: Waterfall (Façade)

January 6 – July 8, 2015

Nari Ward: Divination X (Façade)

March 12 – September 7, 2015

Jean-Michel Othoniel: Secret Flower Sculptures (Hostetter Gallery)

Special Performances November 6, 2014 STIR: Luisa Rabbia and Fa Ventilato, Travels with Isabella: Travel Scrapbooks 1883 – 2008 December 3, 2014 STIR: Susan Howe and David Grubbs: Woodslippercounterclatter April 2, 2015 STIR: A Night Of Poetry And Music with Barry Schwabsky and Marianne Nowottny May 7, 2015 STIR: David Wilson: The Language of Birds

CONTEMPORARY ART

CARLA FERNÁNDEZ CATWALK

Carla Fernández launched her 2015 Spring/Summer collection at the Museum as part of Boston Fashion Week. This first-ever catwalk at the Museum featured prints inspired by tiles in the Spanish Cloister. Fernández turned the whimsical animals and vegetation into beautifully draped tunics and pants that she paired with embroidered pieces and a new line of jewelry. The models strode through Calderwood Hall with white painted feet to music by DJ Ricardo De Lima and Christobal Reys and ended by walking through the glass connector into the Courtyard.

Looks from The Gardner Collection, a line inspired by Fernández’s 2013 residency.

CONTEMPORARY ART

Special Projects

Talks

October 9, 2014 Carla Fernández: Catwalk Spring/Summer 2015 with Boston Fashion Week

March 14, 2015 Jean-Michel Othoniel: Conversation with the Artist

October – June Fridays and Saturdays July – September Thursdays Lee Mingwei: The Living Room project

Exhibition Workshops Carla Fernández: The Barefoot Designer A Passion for Radical Design and Community July 12, 16, 23, 30, 2014 Workshop: √ (Square Root) with Emma Welty and Meegan Williams

March 12, 2015 Robert Storr: The Versailles Water Theatre Grove March 14, 2015 Matteo Gonet and Pieranna Cavalchini: Glassworks March 19, 2015 Tiffany York: Gardens & Glass Gallery Talk, Third Thursday

April 25, 2015 Pieranna Cavalchini and James McLeod: A Closer Look: Glass

Publication Carla Fernández, Fashion@ISGM app, 2014 Jean-Michel Othoniel, The Secret Language of Flowers, 2015

On the Web Nari Ward: Divination X (video)

April 18, 2015 Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu: Murano: Glass From the Olnick Spanu Collection

July 10, 2014 Drop-In Activity: Mobile Textile Lab with Tess Fredette July 2 and August 6, 2014 Workshop: Imaginative Tassel Making with Gisele Haven June 9, 2014 Workshop: Embroidery with Elsbeth Dijxhoorn July 14, 2014 Workshop: Sewing Circle with Meegan Williams August 14 and 15, 2014 Master Class with Carla Fernández August 13–16, 2014 August 20–23, 2014 Backstrap Loom Master Class with Master Weavers Margarita Lopéz and Ceclia Gomez (Session I & II) July 5, July 6, July 7, and August 14, 2014 A series of dance performances in Hostetter Gallery by Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener Backstrap Loom Class in the Jordan Garden with Master Weavers Margarita Lopéz and Cecelia Gomez.

EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS Inspired by the Museum’s strategic plan and with new leadership in two important positions, the Education department piloted new approaches to community engagement and the visitor experience. We began thinking about community engagement in a broader context, striving to increase overall diversity in museum visitors and strengthen participation from our surrounding neighborhoods (Fenway, Roxbury, and Mission Hill). This new strategy involved more collaboration within the department and across the Museum, creating new programming targeting local audiences and staff training to make the museum experience more welcoming for non-traditional museum audiences. Developing and maintaining a lively visitor feedback loop, another key component of the strategic plan, was an essential part of the year’s activities. Working with evaluation consultant Marianna Adams to define and prioritize what we wanted to learn from and about visitors and program participants, department staff experimented with new ways of assessing our offerings. As part of a new Museumwide initiative to use digital tools in more creative ways, Education, Curatorial, and Conservation staff collaborated on the Museum’s first in-gallery digital resource: an iPad placed in the Tapestry Room to help visitors learn more about tapestries and their conservation.

EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS

VISITOR LEARNING

School Programs

Visitor Learning continued to offer a solid program of general public offerings including talks and tours while also trying out some options for these venerable offerings. Responding to findings from audience research conducted by WolfBrown in 2013, Visitor Learning and Public Programs staff collaborated to pilot a Sanctuary Series that offered varied opportunities to engage with restorative aspects of the Museum. Programs included personal response gallery cards, yoga classes, and an experiential workshop that made extensive use of the outside gardens along with the courtyard, Calderwood Hall and galleries. In addition, a private workshop for healthcare providers from the Cambridge Health Alliance demonstrated the value of the Gardner’s unique atmosphere in helping to build community and address burnout. We charged for all these programs, with an eye to future sustainability.

Total served: 1333 teachers and students; 1524 combined with family members

SCHOOL AND TEACHER PROGRAMS The Gardner continues to attract national attention for research that describes the complex interaction between schools and museums. A longitudinal study that tracked a small cohort of Tobin School students from second through 5th grade offers a fascinating picture of how student learning through art changes over time–but not in a linear fashion. Director of School and Teacher Programs, Michelle Grohe led numerous Google Hangouts for museum peers for digital discussions of critical issues in museum education, and took on her new role as director-elect of the National Art Education Association’s Museum Division. Now that the partnership has shifted to include more middle and high school students, we have exciting new learnings about how this age group–and their teachers–responds to Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), and how the approach can better meet the needs of these older students to promote comfort and confidence in an art museum.

TEENS BEHIND THE SCENES As a link between the Gardner’s School Programs and Community Programs, the Teens Behind the Scenes shifted in 2014-15 to emphasize learning about the Museum and sharing that knowledge through a participant-driven capstone project–an artists’ book / guide to the collection Our Gardner–in addition to working with visitors during free and family events. All activities successfully met the program objectives: connecting a diverse group of local youth to the Museum in new ways, building participants’ professional skills and interest in arts careers, supporting staff and visitors during community events, and strengthening intra- and inter-departmental collaboration.

School Partnership Program 5 schools: 1289 students; 44 teachers; 106 museum visits; 39 classroom visits; 334 teacher-led lessons

Partner Schools Boston Latin School Tobin K-8 School Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers Boston College High School Mother Caroline Academy Maurice J. Tobin K-8 School

Teacher Workshops Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) Year 3 Training: EMK School New Partner Teacher Year 1 VTS Training Boston Public Schools Arts Turnaround Schools Introduction to VTS Boston Public Schools World Languages VTS Introductory Training Part I Boston Public Schools World Languages VTS Introductory Training Part II 92 attendees

EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS During the 2014-2015 fiscal year, Community Programs saw a number of transitions, beginning with the retirement of long-time Director of Community Programs, Johnetta Tinker and the hiring of Damon Reaves as Director of Community Engagement. Ending the Community Partnership Program and the Community Creations exhibition, the Museum shifted to a more holistic strategy to use a mix of new and established programs to create multiple engagement opportunities. Focusing on Boston residents, especially non-traditional museum audiences from our surrounding neighborhood, we believe this new approach offers greater potential for long-term engagement, repeat visitors, and increased membership. Open Studio programs, including the monthly Polly Thayer Starr Guest Artist events, developed a loyal following. Studio staff experimented with a range of interactive installations on the Linda Cabot and Ed Anderson Student Art Wall, drawing enthusiastic participation from visitors for a gridding project where visitors helped recreate El Jaleo and the “ISGM Draws” project in connection the Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors’ Drawings from Renaissance Italy exhibition.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS The successful Third Thursdays program continued to attract and engage young adults (18-34 year olds), often through collaboration with outside organizations including Future Boston Alliance, Startup Institute, Discover Roxbury, Grub Street, ONEin3, and Massachusetts College of Art + Design. These collaborations reinvigorate the program and introduce the Museum to audiences who might not typically attend. With 70% of participants under the age of 35, and 63% from the Boston/Cambridge area, Third Thursdays is building new local audiences for the Gardner.

School Partnership Family Events MCA Fall Festival, 28 attendees Tobin Winterfest, 33 attendees EMK Celebration of the Arts, 70 attendees BLS Open House, 60 attendees 191 attendees

Teens Behind The Scenes Damaris Calderon Cassandra Haas Andres Montoya Cilviano Alvir Perez Katie Duckworth Esther Huynh Lara Tang Anthony Peña

Community Programs Neighborhood Nights Thursday, July 10 & 24, August 7, 2014 2107 attendees

Also designed to attract local audiences, a new Sanctuary Series was piloted in June. Programs included lunch-time yoga classes in Calderwood Hall, and two walking workshops in the Museum and outside gardens with Brooklyn-based artist Bibi Calderaro.

Polly Thayer Starr Guest Artists

Richard C. Von Hess Summer Intern Courtney Anderson The University of the Arts, Philadelphia

Polly Thayer Starr Studio Intern Exa Steinbreder School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Opening Our Doors Day Monday, October 13, 2014 2098 attendees

Highland Street Foundation Free Fun Friday August 21, 2014 1882 attendees

The Studio 99 programs 8611 attendees

Raul Gonzalez Destiny Palmer Daniel Callahan Emma Welty Julie Weaver Tamar Etingen Stephen Hamilton Brigid Watson Emily Lombardo Nadeem Mazen/ Danger!Awesome Kana Syoka Ife Franklin Elizabeth Alexander Marlon Forrester Kate Gilbert

Visitor Learning Programs Introductory Talks 420 programs 8,186 attendees Public Tours 394 programs 5,122 attendees Spotlight Talks 253 programs 3,487 attendees Group Tours 573 programs 9,669 attendees Volunteers 130 individuals 5,994 hours 26,464 visitors

Interns Emily Edwards University of Texas, Austin Katherine Fein Arts in Education Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Nora Owens Brandeis University

Kress Interpretive Fellow Alyssa Machida

Educator-in-Residence Marianna Adams

LANDSCAPE The Landscape department has succeeded in becoming a preeminent cultural venue for landscape programming, presenting landscape and its role in contemporary urbanism through innovative, engaging experiences. Our annual Landscape Lectures and other programs have brought new audiences with an interest in design culture, architecture, and urbanism to the Museum. In 2014-15, Landscape commissioned Ken Smith, a landscape architect who is equally at home in the worlds of art, architecture, and urbanism, to create an installation for the Museum. His Fenway Deity animated the Fenway faรงade, one of the most famous views of the Museum, inviting reflection on art in our urban landscape.

Above: The annual fall chrysanthemum display in the Courtyard features Japanese-style single stem chrysanthemums.

Facing page, from left to right: Spectacular Campanua pyramidallis, or chimney bellflowers, are on display in August. Ken Smith, Fenway Deity: Large Inflatable Garden Deity, aka Garden Deity with Gold Chain. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Fenway faรงade, May 20-September 28, 2015.

EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS

Exhibitions

Fenway Deity was created by Ken Smith for the Museum. The large inflatable installation, with a psychedelic spiral pattern and gold chain, hung from the historic façade of the Museum facing the Boston Fens. Spiritually speaking, Fenway Deity responded to the Museum’s 2012 relocation of its entrance to Evans Way, serving as a new conduit for the Museum’s creative energy to protect the Fens from bad spirits and promote environmental renewal, health, and happiness along the Fenway and beyond. The creative spiritual projection from the Museum through the Deity to the Fens is drawn both from elements in the Museum and the impulse to reach out to the wonderful green space that Gardner chose for her Museum.

May 20 – September 28, 2015 Ken Smith: Fenway Deity (on the historic façade of the Museum) February 20, 2014 – September 18. 2015 Correspondence: Monks Garden 1903-2013 (Fenway Gallery)

Preparing for the Fenway Deity was an adventure. While the concept for the 23-foot diameter flower medallion with a 75-foot chain seems simple, execution was complex.

LANDSCAPE LECTURES

Landscape Lectures

The annual Landscape Lectures (all sold out) raise awareness of the significance of landscape in our daily lives. Each lecture features an engaging and inspirational presentation by an internationally renowned landscape architect whose work has shaped the field and embodies the highest aspirations for landscape as an element in the social, cultural, and environmental life of the city.

Eelco Hooftman Teresa Galí-Izard Kathryn Gustafson Claude Cormier

COURTYARD DISPLAYS

Courtyard Displays

The unique interplay between the Courtyard and the Museum galleries offers visitors a fresh view of the courtyard from almost every room, inviting connections between art and landscape.

Displays are listed in order as they appeared from July 2014 through June 2015

Each year, the Courtyard is transformed with new plants and colors in eight seasonal displays, including the beloved Hanging Nasturtiums, exhibited each April and the amazing single-stem Chrysanthemums seen in the Fall.

Summer Blues Bellflowers Chrysanthemums A Holiday Garden Midwinter Tropics Orchids Hanging Nasturtiums Spring Blooms

MUSIC We began our 2014-15 concert season with our chamber orchestra in residence, A Far Cry, who perform at the Museum six times throughout the year. A Far Cry continues to bring exciting programs to the Museum and were nominated for a Grammy in February 2015 and voted Best of Boston in June 2015. We started a new collaboration with the Handel and Haydn Society who performed the complete Brandenburg concerti in December 2014 and celebrated their 200th anniversary in March 2015. The Claremont Trio began a three concert Brahms Project and Borromeo String Quartet began a four concert Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky Project, providing the audience with continuity across the seasons and the opportunity to hear repertoire in complete portions. Sunday Concerts continue to be a favorite among our audience with most concerts selling out. For those not able to listen to concerts at the museum, we offer an online podcast released every two weeks. In September, we reached a significant podcast milestone: 5,000,000 downloads of our podcast and library tracks! In addition, we extended our online offerings with Modern Music, classical, and contemporary concert videos from live performances in Calderwood Hall. Our contemporary music offerings included In-and-Out concerts with four performances on Monday afternoons in November featuring the 50th anniversary of In C by Terry Riley. Paula Robison, flute and Bruce Brubaker, piano and celesta performed Morton Feldmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s For Christian Wolff Â in March, a rarity due to its 3.5 hour length! The Stir series included concerts by A Far Cry with guests Harry Allen, saxophone; Margot Rood, soprano; and members of Eurythmy Spring Valley, Callithumpian Consort, and performances juxtaposing poetry, art, and music by notable contemporary performers. Identifying a need to program music to attract a younger audience prompted more wide ranging genres of music at our Third Thursday events. Groups such as Berklee Latin All-Stars and Zilzala Middle Eastern Ensemble showed that a music series geared towards popular music needed to be offered. Additionally, planning for our RISE music series began which launched in the fall 2015.

Performers at the Gardner A Far Cry, chamber orchestra Aizuri Quartet, string quartet Alain Mallet, piano Aleksey Semeneko, violin Alessio Bax, piano Alexei Grynyuk, piano Amanda Forsythe, soprano Anna Polonsky, piano Benjamin Beilman, violin Benjamin Grosvenor, piano Berklee Latin All-Stars Berklee Rainbow All-Stars Borromeo String Quartet Boston Children’s Chorus

Ji, piano

Peter Wiley, cello

Brian Church, baritone

John Brancy, baritone

Pletenitsa Balkan Choir

Brook Speltz, cello

Jonathan Biss, piano

Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute

Callithumpian Consort, chamber ensemble

Julie Albers, cello

Rebecca Ringle, mezzo-soprano

Cicely Parnas, cello

Karen Ouzounian, cello

Richard Stoltzman, clarinet

Kim Kashkashian, viola

Ron Savage Trio, jazz trio

Leah Ferguson, viola

Sarah Shafer, soprano

Leandro Pellegrino, guitar

Sivan Magen, harp

Dénes Várjon, piano

Les Délices, baroque chamber ensemble

Stefan Jackiw, violin

Elizabeth Keusch, soprano

Margot Rood, soprano

Eroica Trio, piano trio

Marina Piccinini, flute

Steven Blier, piano

Escher String Quartet

Mark Padmore, tenor

Gilbert Kalish, piano

Mary Lynch, oboe

Handel and Haydn Society, baroque chamber ensemble

Michael Barrett, piano

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Hans Tutschku, electronics

Michelle Ross, violin

Tia Fuller, saxophone

Miriam Fried, violin

Tony Flynt, bass

Musicians from Marlboro

Wei-Ping Chou, horn

Nicola Benedetti, violin

Wendy Warner, cello

Nikki Chooi, violin

Wenting Kang, viola

Nile Alexander, saxophone

Yoojin Jang, violin

Noreen Polera, piano

Zilzala Middle Eastern Ensemble

Claremont Trio, piano trio David Deveau, piano David McCarroll, violin

Harry Allen, saxophone Hélène Clément, viola Inna Firsova, piano Irina Nuzova, piano Itamar Zorman, violin Izabella Simon, piano Janai Brugger, soprano Jason Vieaux, guitar Jeffrey Means, percussion

Stephen Drury, piano Steven Laraia, viola SuJin Lee, cello

Oliver Aldort, cello Paavali Jumppanen, piano Patrick Pridemore, horn Left: A Far Cry in Calderwood Hall Above: Borromeo String Quartet performing in Calderwood Hall.

REPORT FROM THE TREASURER In fiscal year 2015, revenue totaled $23.1 million and expenses totaled $22.9 million, resulting in a $0.2 million increase in the Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $269.1 million in net assets. Revenues are comprised of earned income, generous support from the Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s members and donors and a draw from the endowment. The Museum carefully plans for and monitors its expenses in order to most effectively fulfill its mission. As financial conditions for cultural institutions have remained challenging, the Museum is grateful to the three Board committees that ably oversee its financial operations: Finance, chaired by Brian Chu; Investment, chaired by Ben Gomez; 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

Statement of Financial Position

June 30, 2015 June 30, 2014

Assets Cash and Cash Equivalents

5,390,395

5,353,004

Pledges and Other Receivables (Net)

6,239,118

8,093,296

Inventories, Prepaid and Other Assets

1,006,022

1,082,989

Short Term Investments

15,134,146

12,148,807

Museum Property (Net) 105,106,610 110,572,190 Investments of Endowed Funds 168,899,136 166,278,245 Total Assets $301,775,428 $303,528,531 Liabilities Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses

1,361,800

1,631,172

Bonds Payable

31,168,993

32,824,214

Total Liabilities $32,530,792 $34,455,386 Net Assets Unrestricted

81,293,993

83,987,534

Temporarily Restricted

97,349,034

96,099,040

Permanently Restricted

90,601,609

88,986,571

Total Net Assets $269,244,636 $269,073,145 Total Liabilities and Net Assets $301,775,428 $303,528,531

Statement of Activities

Operating

Non-Operating/Other

Total

Revenue Admissions

1,670,630

Store

902,696

Membership

716,613

Rental events

497,824

Other earned income

369,860

Grants and gifts

2,300,390

10,514,969

12,815,359

Annual appeal

1,934,858

Special events

749,240

367,950

1,117,190

15,031

3,021,548

3,036,579

6,469,318

(6,469,318)

Investment income and net appreciation Allocation of endowment income Total Revenue

$15,626,459

$7,435,149

$23,061,608

Expenses Security and museum services

2,899,752

Collection, conservation and public programs 4,973,432

4,973,432

Development and external relations

2,608,492

288,528

2,897,021

Administration

2,753,115

(350,000)

2,403,115

Special projects

681,773

1,961,267

400,000

5,274,384

5,674,384

1,399,375

$15,596,057

$7,294,060

$22,890,117

$30,402

$141,089

$171,491

Facilities and maintenance Depreciation Interest expense Total Expenses Change in Net Assets

ANNUAL SUPPORT We extend our sincerest thanks to Friends of Fenway Court Patrons, Annual Fund donors, and Institutional Supporters who so generously supported the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum during the period of July 2014 through June 2015. This vital annual giving helped to underwrite concerts, historic and contemporary exhibitions, horticulture displays, education and community programs, lecture series, the Artist-in-Residence program, care of the collection, and daily operations.

INDIVIDUAL GIFTS

Gregory Maguire and Andy Newman

Rachel Jacoff

$50K+

Dr. Barbara Millen and Dr. Markley H. Boyer

Abigail P. Johnson and Christopher McKown

Anonymous

Beth K. Pfeiffer

Elizabeth L. Johnson

Amy and David Abrams

Emily and Drew Pluhar

Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. William F. Achtmeyer

William and Lia Poorvu

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald R. Jordan

Mr. and Mrs. Josh Bekenstein

Laura and Geoffrey Rehnert

Mary Beth and Adam Kirsch

Claire and John Bertucci

Annagret and Alexander Sacerdote

Charles Koch and Cynthia Fisher

Tom and Lisa Blumenthal

Sherry and Alan Leventhal

Brit dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Arbeloff

Wendy Shattuck and Samuel Plimpton

Rick and Sadhana Downs

Fredericka and Howard Stevenson Lisa Tung and Spencer Glendon

Mrs. Anthony Liuzzi

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Gardner Mr. and Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr.

$10K+

Richard Lim and Lucy Moon-Lim Mr. and Mrs. Carmine A. Martignetti

Anonymous (2)

Jennifer Toolin McAuliffe and E. Anthony McAuliffe

Maureen and Michael Ruettgers

Mr. and Mrs. Ben and Meghan Balbale

Bruce and Laura Monrad

Marie Louise and David Scudder

Linda Cabot and Edward Anderson

Gwill E. York and Paul Maeder

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Campbell

Mr. and Mrs. A. Neil Pappalardo Marcia J. Radosevich, Ph.D.

$25K+ Willa and Taylor Bodman Elizabeth and Seth Brennan Katherine Chapman Stemberg and Thomas Stemberg*

Mrs. Fay Chandler* Cindy and Ollie Curme Lynn Dale and Frank Wisneski Mr. and Mrs. David Fialkow Anne H. Fitzpatrick

Ellie and Brian Chu

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Gilbane III

Ms. RoAnn Costin and Mr. James N. Bailey

Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Gilbert

Laura DeBonis and Scott Nathan

Susan W. Cable and Benjamin A. Gomez

Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Edgerley

Hanne and Jeremy Grantham

William and Jacalyn Egan

Corinne Grousbeck

William C. and Joyce K. Fletcher

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Hagerty

David and Tracey Frankel

Vivien and Alan Hassenfeld

Diane Gipson

Mr. F. Whitney Hatch III and Dr. Elizabeth E. Hatch

Sarah and Josh Greenhill Mrs. Francis W. Hatch William Helman Stephen W. Kidder and Judith A. Malone

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hess Arnold Hiatt Elisabeth and George Ireland Thomas and Barbara Israel

Jessica and Andrew Nigrelli Charles Rendeiro Luly and Maurice Samuels Lewis Cantley and Vicki Sato Arthur Segel and Patti Saris Ms. Meg P. Succop and Mr. Robert J. Adams Miriam M. Wood and Charles O. Wood III Stephen G. Woodsum and Anne R. Lovett

$5K+ Anonymous (3) Katie and Paul Buttenwieser Mr. Paul A. Cohen Lawrence Coolidge and Nancy Coolidge Dr. and Mrs. Charles C. Dickinson III Jean and Chris Egan Dorothea Endicott Carl and Judy Ferenbach

ANNUAL SUPPORT

Elizabeth Floor

$2K+

Paul Isaac

Diane Gipson/The Tianaderrah Foundation

Anonymous

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Kania, Jr.

Andy and Stephanie Goldfarb

Naomi Aberly and Larry Lebowitz Pamela and Robert Adams

Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, Inc.

Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Gran Ann and Graham Gund Mr. and Mrs. Roland E. Hoch Candace Jans Holly and Bruce Johnstone Keane Family Foundation

Mr. David and Dr. Sharman Altshuler Tess and Sam Atkinson Nancy J. Beeuwkes Lisa A. Bevilaqua Dr. Robert and Barbara Brustowicz

Paula L. Kremer Nancy and Rick Lamb Mr. and Mrs. Butler W. Lampson Amy and Evan Lieberman Mary and Don Melville

Peter Bryant and Michael Downing

Cathy Minehan and Jerry Corrigan

Ms. Lauren Budding and Dr. Pieter Cohen

Heather Sinclair Moulton Maureen O’Brien and Lain Coryell

Margaret K. Burchenal and Daniel Reagan

Paula J. O’Keeffe

Bill and Barbara Burgess

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Russo

Elizabeth and Robert Owens

Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Campion

Mr. Steven B. Samuels and Ms. Ami Cipolla

Mr. and Mrs. John Parker

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald C. Chertavian

Pamela Peedin and Paul Rebuck

Richard and Diane Schmalensee

Pamela Coravos and Garrett Stuck

Dave and Margot Phillips

Elizabeth Coxe and David Forney

Dr. and Mrs. Robert O. Preyer

Dr. C. Russell de Burlo, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. George Putnam, Jr.

Peter and Laurie Thomsen

Mr. John H. Deknatel and Dr. Carol M. Taylor

The Reamer Family Foundation

Marillyn Zacharis

Ronald and Julia Druker

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon F. Kingsley Conan and Brooke Laughlin Jane and Jeffrey Marshall Karen Rosenkrantz and Cox Terhorst

Richard and Paige Sutphin Brendan and Kerry Swords

$3K+ Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Richard I. Anders

Karen and Peter Falb Charles and Lisa Farber Emily Cross Farnsworth

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Olney III

Sally Reid and John Sigel Martin and Rhea Reiss Mr. and Mrs. Mark V. Rickabaugh Lewis and Amy Sassoon

Jacqueline D. and Steven S. Feinberg

Dr. Chrysalyne Schmults and Mr. Robert Schmults

Jennifer and Michael Figge

David and Patricia Squire

Stephanie L. Brown

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher F. O. Gabrieli

Cynthia Stalker and Darrell DuPont

Nicholas and Elizabeth Deane

Andrea Gabrielle

David and Lynn Eikenberry

Mr. and Mrs. M. Dozier Gardner

Mark Jensen

James and Rebecca Garrett

Stephen and Lois Kunian

Michael and Caroline Van Valkenburgh

Mrs. Saundra Lane

Joan P. Goldhammer-O’Neil and Gerald F. O’Neil

Peter and Pamela Voss

John J. Petrowsky and Tom Vise

Mary W. Harriman Foundation

Earl and Tania Smith

William and Lucile Hicks

Demetra and Reza Taleghani

Eloise W. and Arthur C. Hodges

Ms. Valentine H. Talland and Dr. Nagesh Mahanthappa

Steven H. Holtzman

Russ Wiggin and Genevieve Pluhowski

Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Hood II

Marshall and Barbara Tobins

Jonathan and Sydney Winthrop

James D. Houghton and Connie B. Coburn

Ashley H. Wisneski and Will Heward

Dorothy and John Aram Robert and Pamela Beck

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond S. Stata Mr. and Mrs. W. Nicholas Thorndike

Steven and Jennifer Walske Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Webb III Nan Tull and Frank Wezniak

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Houghton Emily Hughey 29

* Deceased

ANNUAL SUPPORT

TRIBUTE GIFTS In honor of Anne Hawley Mr. and Mrs. C. Bruce Johnstone Gregory Maguire and Andy Newman Mr. John A. Shane and Mrs. Dee M.V. Shane Texas Cultural Trust

In memory of Anne Hiatt Dr. Marshall A. Wolf and Dr. Katharine Wolf

John and Sandra Owens

National Endowment for the Arts

Joseph and Barbara Pedulla

Mabel Louise Riley Foundation

Ann J. Prouty

Wallace Minot Leonard Foundation

Nancy Sampson Dick and Chris Slaats Lisa Sone

$25K+ Hemenway & Barnes LLP

Carl Vercollone

Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation

In honor of Holly Salmon

Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust

Matthew and Laura Olton

Rowland Foundation, Inc.

In honor of Katherine Chapman Stemberg

The Yawkey Foundation

Thomas C. and Jo Ann Succop Family Charitable Foundation

In memory of Dr. Anthony Liuzzi

Neal Balkowitsch and Donald Nelson

$10K+

Mrs. Anthony Liuzzi

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Gormley

Anonymous

In honor of Barbara Hostetter

In memory of May Poorvu

Mr. and Mrs. C. Bruce Johnstone

Dr. Marshall A. Wolf and Dr. Katharine Wolf

In memory of Charles H. Brenner Ronald and Marci Holzer

In honor of Meg and Rob Adams and their children Wyatt and Asa

In honor of Charles K. Gifford

Dr. Michael G. Millin and Ms. Amy S. Millin

Laura and Edward Evans

In honor of Peter Bryant

Bottega Veneta The Caleb C. and Julia W. Dula Educational and Charitable Foundation The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Samuel H. Kress Foundation Robert Lehman Foundation Nathaniel Saltonstall Arts Fund

Robert and Susan Bryant

Reynolds R. and Pamela M. Smith Foundation

William Helman

Edwin S. Webster Foundation

In honor of Tori Hackett and Betsy Gifford

$5K+

Ms. Karen Christensen Tucker Crum

Laura and Edward Evans

Roy A. Hunt Foundation

In memory of Flora Cherner Anonymous Laurie Abrams-Hall Audrey and Leonard Berman

Carolyn A. Ferrucci Selma Mirsky Catherine Ranieri

In honor of Wendy Shattuck Paul Isaac

Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Liberty Mutual Group New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. New Balance Foundation

Julie Ann Ranieri

In honor of William Poorvu

Old Mutual Asset Management

Cecilia Sindoni

Dr. Rhoda Baruch

Thomas A. Pappas Charitable Foundation, Inc.

Laura Sindoni Sally J. Todd

Putnam Investments

Roberta and Roger Wetherbee

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORTERS

In memory of Flora Vercollone

$50K+

Skip and Joan Barry

Anonymous (2)

Raymond and Deanne Caspari

Bank of America Corporation

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Ed and Mary Ann Davidson

Chanel, Inc.

The Mattina R. Proctor Foundation

William and Kathryn Hurley

Fidelity Investments, Inc.

Shawmut Design and Construction

Jim and Dixie Olmstead

Massachusetts Cultural Council

Sothebyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation

$2,000+

CAMPAIGN FOR THE GARDNER SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE GARDNER Thanks to the generosity, commitment, and leadership of so many, the Museum successfully completed its $180 million capital and endowment campaign in December 2014. This achievement resulted in the Renzo Piano-designed wing—a new public and civic platform from which to engage local, regional, and international audiences. New programming spaces, which opened in 2012, have transformed the way the museum engages the public, from drop-in studio and greenhouse classes, to larger special exhibitions of both historic and contemporary art, to a performance hall that is piloting new programs and celebrating musical talent every year. The campaign has not only helped to revitalize its public offerings, but it has also enabled the museum to preserve its world-renowned collection by off-loading the historic building of those programs that now thrive in inspiring new spaces. Parallel with providing vibrant programming, preservation and conservation remains paramount at the Museum, and the work conducted at the museum’s new, state-of-the-art conservation center will ensure that the collection can remain accessible long into the future. The successful campaign has given the Museum a strong and broad foothold into its next chapter: in addition to the new public spaces, five curatorial positions, as well as the chief conservator, were endowed; full gallery restoration projects in the historic building were funded; a programming innovation fund was established; endowment for maintenance and capital replacement was raised; and a planned giving program was launched. This remarkable achievement would not have been possible without your support. Thank you for your part in helping Art Come to Life at the Museum.

HIGHLIGHTS OF ACHIEVEMENT:

Development and Campaign Committee

Friends of Landscape

• Raised $124.5 million covering hard and soft costs.

Barbara W. Hostetter, Chair

Maureen Ruettgers

David W. Scudder, Chair

Gwill York

• Raised $2.3 million for major conservation projects in the historic building including full gallery restorations of the Tapestry Room and Raphael Room.

Friends of the Collection

Friends of Music

Mark Goodman

Katherine Chapman Stemberg

Sarah Greenhill

Cindy Curme

• Met and exceeded endowment target of $46 million, with $47.6 million (all five Curatorial positions, plus Chief Conservator, are now endowed).

Alli Achtmeyer

• Raised $1.6 million for Innovation Fund to experiment with new programming concepts. • Launched Planned Giving program.

Friends of Contemporary Lisa Blumenthal

RoAnn Costin

Corinne Grousbeck Beth Martignetti Laura Rehnert

Anne Fitzpatrick

Friends of Fenway Court

Barbara Hostetter

Meghan Balbale

Friends of Education Anita Bekenstein Linda N. Cabot Kate Chertavian Beth Pfeiffer

Richard Lim Annagret Sacerdote Meg Succop Ashley Wisneski

CAMPAIGN FOR THE GARDNER

Campaign Donors Anonymous (11) Amy L. and David Abrams Allison and William Achtmeyer Mrs. Charles F. Adams Pamela and Robert Adams Mr. and Mrs. Theodore B. Alfond Mr. David and Dr. Sharman Altshuler Yuriko Anton Dorothy and David* Arnold Anne and James Bailey Tracy Williams Barron James and Hanna Bartlett Anita and Josh Bekenstein Mr. Stephen A. Bell

Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Bruns Grayson

Mr. and Mrs. David D. Croll

Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas P. Greville

John and Diddy Cullinane J. P. Culver Cutler, Dana and Goodhue Families Brit dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Arbeloff Mr. Raymond H. Dearden, Jr.* Laura DeBonis and Scott Nathan Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. DeMore Tina and Philip DeNormandie The Estate of Gloria E. Distasi Stephanie Dodson and Jamie Cornell T. William and Barbara Donnelly

Sarah and Josh Greenhill Prof. Stephen A. Greyser and Dr. Linda Lorraine Greyser Grousbeck Family Foundation Gloria White-Hammond and Ray A. Hammond Helena B. Hartnett and Kenneth Hartnett The Hassenfeld Foundation Mr.* and Mrs. Francis W. Hatch, Jr. Mr. F. Whitney Hatch III and Dr. Elizabeth E. Hatch Anne Hawley and Urs Gauchat Mr. and Mrs. William W. Helman, IV

Robert W. and Evelyn H. Doran

Hemenway & Barnes LLP

The Hon. Michael Dukakis and Mrs. Kitty Dukakis

John and Trevania Henderson

Margaret A. Biggar

Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Henderson

Brant C. Binder

Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky

Anita Herrick

Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird, III*

Paul and Sandra Edgerley

Arnold Hiatt

Tom and Lisa Blumenthal

William and Jacalyn Egan

Bob and Kristine Higgins

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Bodman

John J. Egan Jr.

Eloise W. and Arthur C. Hodges

Willa and Taylor Bodman

Alan Emmet

Hope Foundation

David and Patricia Braga

Nina and David Fialkow

Barbara and Amos Hostetter

The Hon. Stephen G. Breyer and Mrs. Joanna Breyer

Pamela and Anthony Fingleton

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Houghton

Anne H. Fitzpatrick

The Hon. Julian T. Houston and Mrs. Susan Levine Houston

Claire and John Bertucci

Peter and Anne Brooke Samuel B. and Deborah D. Bruskin Mrs. Dale Bryant* Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Burnes, Jr. Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser

William C. and Joyce K. Fletcher Elizabeth Floor Mr. and Mrs. Robert Freeman Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Fuller Diane S. Gallagher*

Institute of Museum and Library Services Elisabeth and George Ireland Rachel Jacoff

Frieda Garcia

Drs. Paula A. Johnson and Robert A. Sands

Mr. George Gardner*

Holly and Bruce Johnstone

Robert Gardner*

Darlene and Jerry Jordan

Mr. and Mrs. John Lowell Gardner

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Kania, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. M. Dozier Gardner

Robert and Marjie Kargman

Kate and Tom Gilbane

Paul D. Kazilionis

Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Gilbert

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Kemper

Mr. and Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert

Mr. and Mrs. J. Linzee Coolidge

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Gill

Stephen W. Kidder and Judith A. Malone

Lawrence Coolidge and Nancy Coolidge

Andy and Stephanie Goldfarb

Mr. and Mrs. Randy E. Kinard

Hanne and Jeremy Grantham

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon F. Kingsley

Ms. Heidi Cox

Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Gray

Robert L. Kleinberg

Linda N. Cabot and Edward T. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. John G. L. Cabot Mr. and Mrs. Lewis P. Cabot Cabot Family Charitable Trust Calderwood Charitable Foundation Rebecca B. Gardner Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Campion Ellie and Brian Chu

CAMPAIGN FOR THE GARDNER

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Koerner

Robert and Elizabeth Owens

Edward A. and Anne Teppo

Joyce and Edward Lawrence

A. Neil and Jane Pappalardo

Laurie and Peter Thomsen

Sherry and Alan Leventhal

Paratus Group

Nick and Joan Thorndike

Leon Levy Foundation

Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund

Estate of Janice M. Thresher

Richard Lim and Lucy Moon-Lim

Pamela Peedin and Paul Rebuck

Nancy B. Tieken*

Anthony* and Monique Liuzzi

Beth K. Pfeiffer

Caleb Loring, Jr.*

Timothy Phillips

Martin, Diane, David, and Laura Trust

The Lost & Foundation, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Phillips

The Lynch Foundation

Eric Plantrich

George and Ann Macomber

Plimpton Shattuck Fund

John F. Magee*

Dr. and Mrs. J. William Poduska, Sr.

The Richard C. von Hess Foundation

Gregory Maguire and Andy Newman

William and Lia Poorvu

Mr. and Mrs. Ernst H. von Metzsch

Mr. and Mrs. Scott D. Malkin

Dr. and Mrs. Robert O. Preyer

Charlotte and Herbert Wagner

Robert A. Radloff and Ann Beha

Wallace Minot Leonard Foundation

Marcia J. Radosevich, Ph.D

Mr. and Mr. E. Denis Walsh

John S. and Cynthia L. Reed Foundation

Sally Wardwell

Jane Manopoli Dr. Kristian Markon Jane and Jeffrey Marshall Mr. and Mrs. Carmine A. Martignetti

Laura and Geoffrey Rehnert

Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund

Miss Marcia A. Rizzotto*

Jennifer Toolin McAuliffe and E. Anthony McAuliffe

John and Dorothy Remondi Estate of Sandra Shepard Rodgers Elaine* and Jerome* Rosenfeld

The Trust Family Foundation Tzedakah Fund (Bernard & Sue Pucker)

Elizabeth Weir Mary and Ted Wendell Wilderness Point Foundation Janet Hostetter Wilson Jonathan and Sydney Winthrop Lynne* and Frank Wisneski

Jeffrey and Christine McCormick

Christine H. Rossell

Duncan and Ellen McFarland

The Ruettgers Family

Christine Kondoleon and Frederic Wittmann

Isabel Meirelles

Annagret and Alexander Sacerdote

Miriam M. Wood and Charles O. Wood III

Lewis Cantley and Vicki Sato Richard and Diane Schmalensee

Anne R. Lovett and Stephen G. Woodsum

Laurie M. Scott

Mr. Hansjoerg Wyss

Amy Wilson Scott and John Scott

Gwill York and Paul Maeder

Bruce and Laura Monrad

Marie Louise and David Scudder

Henri Zerner

Dan Monroe and Catherine Wygant

Polly Slavet

D. Brooks and Linda Zug

Richard P. and Claire W. Morse Foundation

Pamela Smith

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Howard Messing Ms. Pauline C. Metcalf Dr. Barbara Millen and Dr. Markley H. Boyer

Laura and Kenneth Morse Caroline Mortimer and Richard Grubman Peter Nadosy National Endowment for the Humanities Jessica Gifford Nigrelli Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nye Kathryn and Bob* Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connell 33

Elizabeth C. Sluder Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Z. Sorenson Mr. and Mrs. Lionel B. Spiro John Steigerwald Thomas G. Stemberg Charitable Foundation Fredericka and Howard Stevenson Ms. Meg P. Succop and Mr. Robert J. Adams Meg Tallon Benjamin and Katherine Taylor

* Deceased

MEMBERSHIP AT THE GARDNER Membership offers the freedom to visit often, to experience deeper connections, and to enjoy special access to the Museum. The Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s membership continues to thrive, offering a robust calendar of programming and sustaining its expanded member community, despite declining membership trends industry-wide.

MEMBERSHIP SUPPORT 2014-2015

Courtyard Circle Thank you to Courtyard Circle members who have provided vital support to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum during the period of July 2014 through June 2015. Their generosity helped underwrite concerts, historic and contemporary exhibitions, horticultural displays, education and community programs, lecture series, residency program, care of the collection and daily operations. Dr. Rhoda Baruch Robert L. Beal Paisley and Susan Boney Ellen and Ronald Brown Ian Carnathan Frank Clark Kay Ellen Consolver and John Storkerson Michael J. Cuggino

George and Irene Frangiadakis

University Members

Dr. Alex Gold, Jr. and Mrs. Leslie F. Gold

Thank you to all the universities who have generously supported the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum during the period of July 2014 through June 2015. Their support played a vital role in enabling the Museum to open its doors and to provide the type of programming and exhibitions that are central to the Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission.

Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas P. Greville Rosa Hallowell and Mark Stein Esmond V. Harmsworth Jerome and Margaretta Hausman Barry Hershey Francis F. Kingsley Richard and Nancy Lubin Eric and Brooke Meltzer Nancy and John Nichols Christine H. Rossell Frederick and Kathleen Schultz Polly Slavet Andrew Spindler and Hiram Butler Jeanne and Don Stanton Theodore E. Stebbins and Susan Ricci Gillian Steel Amy and Jessica Ward Dr. LaurieAnn Yeisley-Drogin and Dr. Eric Drogin

Boston College Boston University Colleges of the Fenway, Inc. Emerson College Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology The New England Conservatory School of the Museum of Fine Arts Wellesley College

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TRUSTEES AND OVERSEERS BOARD OF TRUSTEES

LIFE TRUSTEES

Paul Gilbert

David W. Scudder Chairman

John L. Gardner Chairman Emeritus

Andy Goldfarb

Stephen W. Kidder President

Dr. Samuel L. Bodman

Brian Chu Secretary

William C. Fletcher

Gwill York Treasurer

Arnold S. Hiatt

Anne Hawley Norma Jean Calderwood Director

Frieda Garcia Judge Julian Houston William J. Poorvu Marcia Radosevich

Amy Abrams

Vincent J. Ryan

Allison Achtmeyer

Wendy Shattuck

Anita Bekenstein

James L. Terry

John Bertucci

Steven Walske

Lisa Blumenthal

Charles O. Wood III

Taylor Bodman (elected May 2015)

Henri Zerner

James E. Canales (elected May 2015) RoAnn Costin Brit dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Arbeloff

John T. Grady Sarah Greenhill Corinne Grousbeck Thomas M. Hagerty Vivien Hassenfeld Francis W. Hatch III Elisabeth W. Ireland Rachel Jacoff Abigail Johnson Darlene Jordan Renee Landers David Lavallee Yuchun Lee (elected May 2015) Richard Lim

BOARD OF OVERSEERS Thomas F. Gilbane, Chair

Laura DeBonis William P. Egan

Richard Anders

Benjamin Gomez

Meghan Balbale

Rev. Dr. Ray A. Hammond

Tracy Williams Barron (elected May 2015)

William Helman

Mark Goodman

Arthur D. Little Gregory Maguire Beth Martignetti Jennifer Toolin McAuliffe Bruce Monrad Jessica Gifford Nigrelli Pamela Peedin Tim Phillips

Stephen Bell

Stephanie Pinder-Amaker

Seth Brennan

James Andrew Pluhar

Linda N. Cabot

Laura Rehnert

Joseph Koerner

Rebecca Gardner Campbell

Annagret Sacerdote

Dr. Barbara Millen

Heather Campion

Vicki Sato

Jane M. Pappalardo

Kate Chertavian

Richard Schmalensee

Beth K. Pfeiffer

Lawrence Coolidge

Arthur Segel

John S. Reed

Cynthia Curme

Meg Succop

Maureen Ruettgers

Tammy Dowley-Blackman (elected May 2015)

Ashley Wisneski

Barbara W. Hostetter Dr. Paula A. Johnson (elected May 2015)

Katherine Chapman Stemberg Howard H. Stevenson

Frederick S. Downs Jr. Nina Fialkow Anne Fitzpatrick David Frankel Robert Freeman

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