Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schieding and Berman, teaming together at first doubles, failed to defeat Lindner and senior Gardner Rowbothom, who pulled out a three-set victory. Cornell also dropped the second doubles match but won the third, making the final outcome 7-2, as Abell and Boyd downed Sandy Wilson and Brian Griffin...
Ebenstein and Rogers played the closest match of the day at number one doubles, but Lindner and senior Gardner Rowbothom protected the Harvard shutout with a 6-4, 7-5 victory. Ingard and Horn, combining at number two doubles, downed Coffin and Arnold...
Eccentrics are not very plentiful these days, but the irreverance they represent is essential for survival. The Gardner Museum and all the letters, drawings, priceless paintings and china and carved doors and plaster casts and orchids and headless Greek statues in it are almost a monument to eccentricity. Mrs. Jack's place helps us step back from the world--if only for a moment--to laugh at all the absurdity...
...museum is insane. The most often-heard comment there is "Where did she get all this junk?" Japanese screens crowd the back staircases. Roman sarcophagi mix with Buddhist shrines, are surmounted by Venetian balconies and bordered by Egyptian owls. That portrait of her husband confronts a Botticelli--when Mrs. Gardner bought that painting, the Prince who smuggled it out of Italy almost landed in jail. Her Manets are grouped in one tiny, overcrowded room where they compete with William James's portrait of his literary brother, while an entire long hall is given over as a showplace for a Spanish...
...Gardner is not even a museum in the classical sense. It's not dedicated to the continuous acquisition of art objects. It conducts no research. The paintings are there because Mrs. Jack Gardner liked them and with no other thought in mind she arranged them haphazardly all over the building. Mrs. Jack's pleasure palace, as it's sometimes called, is a tangible recreation of her erratic personality--walk through the building with that in mind and you come to know her. It is crazy and absurd, partly full of junk yet partly one of the greatest art collections...