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THE ART OF SCANDAL
A thoroughly readable biography—the first in 30 years—of the eclectic-minded collector, patron, and designer whose unique legacy, an art-filled Venetian palazzo in Boston's Fenway neighborhood, continues to inspire visitors to the present day. A fan of baseball and boxing, the bohemian Gardner, born in 1840 and living at the dawn of the media age, was able to use the negative response of a patriarchal society to female accomplishment for her own purpose—what the author calls ``the art of scandal.'' In her relationships with men other than her husband, Jack Gardner—the painter John Singer Sargent, and writers Henry James and Francis Crawford included—she scandalized Boston society. Crawford and Gardner, writes the author, were deeply, passionately intimate—soul mates, for sure- -but this need not suggest a sexual union, he says. In art collecting, Gardner found her vocation. In Paris in 1892 she purchased Vermeer's Le Concert for $6,000. Soon, with the help of Bernard Berenson, she added a major Botticelli and Titian's Rape of Europa. At the high point of her life (and this book) lies the building in 190001 of her museum/home, a whimsical pastiche whose construction incorporates such disparate elements as medieval choir s
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Ralph Adams Cram married Elizabeth (“Bess”) Carrington Read in 1900, when he was thirty-six and she was twenty-seven. Bess was well educated (she had been a school teacher), possessed a keen intellect and displayed “a high sense of personal and family honor.”[6] Her father, deeply affected by the Civil War, had fought for the Confederacy. He committed suicide in 1893. Bess herself was prone to severe nervous breakdowns and general instability, making social and familial interactions with her challenging. After a wedding trip to Italy fraught with emotional crises precipitated by the addition of a traveling companion on their honeymoon — a male friend of Cram — the newlyweds returned to Boston and settled into their home in Sudbury. Bess and Cram raised three children, Mary, Ralph and Elizabeth.
Bess was the subject of little sympathy and much criticism in Julie’s and Mary’s letters. On October 28, 1920, for example, Mary described her as “the most antipathetic person I ever saw.”[7] And on December 10, 1920, she suggested, “You ought to give R.A.C. 'Europe & the Faith,' by [Hilaire] Belloc — only Elizabeth would probably throw it at your head. Poor man, to think of being tied to her for life!”[8] Two years later, a