grandes dames as custodians of, 10–11, 67, 280–81
guilt feelings associated with, 211, 212
IRS stipulations on, 280
matriarchal domination in, 59
New American Masters in, 74–75
patriotism in, 74, 211
prices paid for, 86, 211, 240–41
Ascoli, Marion Rosenwald, see Rosenwald, Marion
Ascoli, Max, 111
Astor, Brooke, 282
Astor, Caroline:
dinner parties given by, 17–19, 127
in New York Society, 17, 49, 213, 223, 227
operas attended by, 18, 27, 243
personality of, 17
social decline of, 19–20, 244
Astor, Vincent, 282
Atlantic Monthly, 79, 91
August Belmont & Company, 224
Austerity Castle, 116–17
Austin Statesman, 187
Bacon, Mrs. Robert Low, 282
Bakhmeteff, George, 236
Baltzell, E. Digby, 24, 25
Barbizon School, 68, 212
Bar Harbor, Maine, 42, 43, 48
Barnard College, 159
Baron de Hirsch Fund, 201
Barrie, James M., 229
Barrymore, John, 230
Barrymore, Lionel, 230
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 71
Baume, Germaine de, 50
Bayou Bend, 268–69, 276–77
Beatles, 275
Beaux, Cecilia, 75
Beebe, Lucius, 267
Belmont, August:
art collected by, 226
background of, 223–25
children of, 231
Christianization of, 225–26
death of, 226
as Jewish, 224, 247
marriage of, 225–26
in New York society, 226–27
race track built by, 226
Belmont, August, Jr.:
background of, 231
death of, 247
first marriage of, 231
race horses owned by, 237–38
second marriage of, 231–32, 233, 234
Belmont, Caroline Slidell Perry:
background of, 226
children of, 231
marriage of, 225–26, 236
in New York society, 227
Belmont, Eleanor Robson:
as actress, 92–93, 228–29, 230, 232, 281
appearance of, 247–48
art collected by, 241
background of, 227–28
death of, 254
entertaining by, 235
honors received by, 253–54
mansions of, 233–34, 253
marriage of, 231–32, 233, 234
as opera patroness, 241, 242, 247, 248–50, 251–52, 254, 266
philanthropy of, 238, 239–40, 241, 252–53, 280
as racing enthusiast, 236–38
Shaw’s relations with, 229–30, 241
as society hostess, 235–36
Belmont, Fredericka Elsaas, 225
Belmont, Oliver Hazard Perry, 231
Belmont, Perry, 231
Belmont, Simon, 225
Belmont mansion, 234, 253
Belmont Park Race Track, 226
Berenson, Bernard:
background of, 78–79, 218
classic work by, 220
Duveen’s relations with, 214–15, 217–19
Gardner’s relations with, 83–84, 86, 91, 215
as Italian Renaissance art expert, 83, 166, 215–16, 220, 241
memoirs of, 219
Berenson, Mrs. Bernard, 218
Biddle, Mrs. Alexander, 48
Biddle, Edward, 25
Biddle, Emily Drexel, 25
Bigelow, Henry J., 61
Big Four, The (Lewis), 198–99
Billy Rose Sculpture Garden, 120
Birley, Oswald, 209
blacks, Rosenwalds and, 103, 105, 110, 111
Blashfield, Edwin H., 199
Blue Boy, The (Gainsborough), 207, 211, 216
Bockius, Morris, 44
Bohemians, opera and, 244
Borgia, Lucrezia, 15
Boston Assemblies, 64
Boston Brahmins, 281
Boston Opera House, 59
Boston society:
arts viewed by, 67, 68
as “conventionally independent,” 56
Germans in, 64
intellectual life in, 55
liberalism of, 55
old families in, 60
Philadelphia society vs., 55
ritual visiting in, 63
Sewing Circle in, 63–64
wealth in, 55, 60
Boston Transcript, 260
Botticelli, Sandro, 84, 217
Broadnax, Lucius, 269, 270
Brooklyn Museum, 195
Browning, Robert, 230
Bunche, Ralph, 103
Bunker, Denis, 77, 78
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 232
Burt, Nathaniel, 37, 41
By-the-Sea, 234, 253
Calder, Alexander, 120
Callas, Maria, 131
Cameron, Evelyn, 227, 228
Carew Tower, 158
Carmody, Deirdre, 254
Carnegie Museum, 104
Carter, Boake, 43
Carter, Morris, 86
Cartier, Pierre, 41, 128, 220
Caruso, Enrico, 245
Casals, Pablo, 91
Cassatt, Alexander, 42
Cassatt, Mary, 75
Central Pacific Railroad, 185, 205
chandeliering, 64
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, 192
Chicago:
Charity Ball in, 127
crime in, 102–3, 126
music in, 130–31, 132–33
psychoanalysis in, 144–45
public morality in, 132–33
society life in, 126–28
Chicago Institute of Art, 127
Chicago Opera Company, 128, 130–131, 132–33, 134, 137, 138, 139, 144
Chicago Tribune, 103, 150
Chicago with Love (Meeker), 148
Child Guidance Center of Houston, 274–75
Children of the Ghetto (Zangwill), 228
Children of the King (Crawford), 71
Cincinnati:
early years of, 155–56
ethnic composition of, 159
as Losantiville, 155
old families in, 156
philanthropy in, 163–65, 166
prosperity of, 156–57
Cincinnati Art Museum, 168, 179
Cincinnati Enquirer, 173, 174–78, 179–180
Civil War, U.S., 164, 190, 226
Cleveland, Grover, 16
Clews, Elsie, 235
Clifton, Chalmers, 166, 179n
coal mining, 39
Cochran, Alexander Smith, 138–40
Colby, Olive, 149
Colton mansion, 199
Congress, U.S., 185
Connally, John, 276
Connally, Nellie, 278
Conried, Heinrich, 245
Cook, Augustus, 227
Cook, Madge Carr, 227, 228
Coolidge, Calvin, 116
Cotton Exchange, 106, 117
Crawford, Frank Marion:
background of, 69–70
escape of, 73, 75–76
Gardner’s relations with, 70, 71–74, 77, 81, 91
as novelist, 71–72, 75
Crocker, Charles, 185, 186
Cromwell, Charles Thorn, 16
Cromwell, Doris Duke, 45, 50
Cromwell, James Henry Roberts, 233
background of, 38–39
on Eva Stotesbury, 42–43, 45, 47–48, 49–51, 279
first marriage of, 40–41, 45, 50
as New Dealer, 45–46
on Philadelphia society, 49
poverty viewed by, 39
Cromwell, Louise, 20, 21, 50
Cromwell, Oliver, 17
Cromwell, Oli
ver, Jr., 50
Cromwell, Oliver Eaton, 16, 17, 20, 21
Custom of the Country, The (Wharton), 74
Daisy Miller (James), 68
Damrosch, Walter, 140
dances, customs at, 64
Daniel Frawley Stock Company, 227–228
Dato, Edward, 147, 148
Davison, Henry P., 240
Dawn of Tomorrow, The (Burnett), 232
Dedmon, Emmett, 133
d’Engor, Arcadie, 138
Depression of 1929, 43, 44, 148, 179, 246–47
Devereux, Mrs. Arthur, 173–74
Devereux, Marion, 173, 174–78, 179–180, 195
Dickens, Charles, 160
Dillard University, 111, 112
Dillingham, Barbara, 257, 275
Dillman, Hugh, 45
Djordjadze, Dmitri, 177
Dodge, Anna, 40, 41, 45, 48, 220
Dodge, Delphine, 40, 45
Dodge, Geraldine Rockefeller, 133–34
Dodge, Horace, 40–41, 45, 212, 233
Dodge, Marcellus Huntley, 125
Dodge Corporation, 45
Douglas, Alfred, 132
Dr. Claudius (Crawford), 71
Drexel, Anthony J., 22, 25
Drexel and Company, 22, 45
Duke, Doris, 45, 50
Duke, James Buchanan, 45
Duke, Nanaline Inman, 45
du Maurier, Gerald, 230
Dürer, Albrecht, 214
Duveen, Elsie, 213
Duveen, James Henry, 193
Duveen, Joel Joseph, 215
Duveen, Joseph:
in art-dealer rivalry, 241
background of, 218
Berenson’s relations with, 214–15, 217–19
collecting eminence of, 220
Huntington’s relations with, 199–200, 201, 206, 207, 208, 211, 213, 214, 216–17, 220
in lawsuits, 214–15
Stotesbury’s relations with, 33–34, 36, 38, 42, 47, 84, 86, 167–68, 220
tactics of, 212–13
Edgar B. Stern Family Fund, 117–19
Edgecliffe, 159–60
education:
for blacks, 103, 105
English model for, 59
for preschoolers, 127
private philanthropy for, 238
as progressive, 109
for women, 159, 171
Eiffel Tower, 196
Eldridge, William, 23
Eliot, T. S., 78
Ellis, A. Caswell, 273
El Mirasol, 41–42, 48, 51
Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee, 241, 252
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 91
Emery, Albert, 161
Emery, Audrey, 177
Emery, John Josiah, 156, 157–58, 177
Emery, Julia, 157
Emery, Kezia, 157
Emery, Mary:
art collected by, 161, 167–68, 179, 215
background of, 158–59
children of, 161–62
city planning by, 171–73, 178–79, 180–81
death of, 178–79
Devereux’s relations with, 177–78
Livingood’s relations with, 161–62, 166–67, 168, 169, 179
mansions built by, 159–61
marriage of, 158, 159
personality of, 159, 161
philanthropy of, 162, 163–66, 167, 168, 169, 170–73, 178–79, 280
young protégés of, 166
Emery, Sheldon, 161
Emery, Thomas, 156, 157
Emery, Thomas Josephus, Jr.:
background of, 156
business affairs of, 157–58
death of, 162
marriage of, 158, 159
Memorial Fund for, 163–64, 179, 180, 181
Emery Auditorium, 164–65
Emery Candle Company, 157, 158
Emmet, Alida Chanler, 282
England, 59, 253
Erté, 149
Evans, Cerinda W., 188–90
Fabric of Memory, The (Belmont), 232
Fabulous Chicago (Dedmon), 133
Farrar, John, 252
Farwell, Arthur, 132
Fate of Marvin, The (Hogg), 258
feminism, 127, 171, 193, 281, 282
Fenway Court, see Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Field, Marshall, 100
Filson, John, 155
Finletter, Thomas K., 236
Finn, Mickey, 126
Fish, Mrs. Stuyvesant, 235, 236
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 179
Flagstad, Kirsten, 250–51
Fleischman, Gladys, 112n
Fleming, John F., 208
Ford, Henry, 101, 212, 280
Ford Foundation, 280
Four Hundred, origin of, 17–18
Fraenkel, Joseph, 138
Franks, Bobby, 112n
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, 263
Franz Josef, Emperor, 263
Frawley, Daniel, 228–29
Freud, Sigmund, 136–37
Frick, Henry, 211, 212, 215
Frick Museum, 104
Fuller, Melville W., 16
furniture, American, 261–62
Gambetta, Léon, 76
Gamble, James, 157
Garden, Mary, 131, 132–33, 137
Garden Clubs of America, 112
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 227
appearance of, 56–57, 61
art museum built by, see Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
as art patroness, 66–68, 76–77, 83–85
background of, 56–58, 59
Berenson’s relations with, 83–84, 86, 91, 215
in Boston society, 63–64, 69, 74, 77–78
Crawford’s relations with, 69–70, 71–74, 75–76, 77, 81, 91
at dances, 64–65
in Europe, 58, 59, 61, 66, 82
illnesses of, 63, 64, 65, 66, 76, 85
inheritances of, 82, 85
James’s relations with, 68–69
marriage of, 62, 69, 76, 83
nervous breakdowns of, 66, 76, 85
salon founded by, 67–68, 69
Sargent’s portraits of, 80–81, 91
Sargent’s relations with, 77, 79
sexual life of, 72–73
son born to, 65–66
unconventional behavior of, 55, 61–62, 77–78, 82–83
Whistler’s portrait of, 67–68
youthful protégés of, 78, 166
Zorn’s portrait of, 90
Gardner, John Lowell, 58, 65
Gardner, John Lowell, Jr.:
background of, 60–61
in Boston society, 69, 74
business affairs of, 60, 82
child born to, 65
Crawford’s relations with, 72, 73–74
death of, 85
in Europe, 66, 82
marriage of, 62, 69, 76, 83
portrait withdrawn by, 81
Gardner, John Lowell, III, 65
Gardner, Joseph, 60
Gardner, Julia, 58, 60
Gatti-Casazza, Giulio, 245, 246, 251
Gautreau, Madame, 76
General Motors Corporation, 118
Gereuth, Maurice de Hirsch de, 201
Germans, Boston, 64
Giorgione, Il, 218
Gizycka, Felicia, 127
Gizycki, Count Josef, 127
golf, 234
Gould, Jay, 223
grandes dames:
as art custodians, 10–11, 67, 280–81
as displaced by corporations, 280
essential qualities of, 9–11, 15, 281
feminism and, 281, 282
government’s discouragement of, 280
new vs. old types of, 282–83
philanthropy of, 11
Proud Possessors vs., 10–11
selection of, 11
sexist view of, 257
as tough, 9, 15, 281
as “vanishing breed,” 279–83
Grant, Frederick Dent, 127
G
rant, Ulysses S., 127
Gréber, Jacques, 36
Greeley, Horace, 224–25
Green, Marion, 166
Grey, Edward, 263
Guest, Edgar, 99
Guest, Joseph, 167, 168
Guggenheim Foundation, 280
Hackett, Charles, 166
Hammerslough family, 101
Hammerstein, Oscar, I, 246
Happy Profession, The (Sedgwick), 79–80
Harlow, Alvin, 180
Harriman, E. H., 20, 203, 223
Harriman, Mary, 238–39, 240
Harris, Leon, 120
Harrison, Benjamin, 231
Harte, Bret, 230
Havemeyer, Frederick C., 197
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 196
Henderson, Isaac, 194
Henderson, Nathalie, 239
Hepworth, Barbara, 120
Hess, Tom, 113
Heyneman, Julie Helen, 77
Histoire Héliodore, 129
Hogg, Ima:
appearance of, 259–60, 267
art collected by, 262–63
background of, 258–59, 260–61, 281
buildings restored by, 275–76
as clairvoyant, 265, 272
death of, 277–78
education of, 260–61, 262
egalitarianism of, 267
entertaining by, 269–70
as horse enthusiast, 263–64
interests of, 261–62, 265, 272–73, 275–76
mansion built by, 268–69
in mental-health work, 273–75
naming of, 257–59
oil wealth of, 265
personality of, 257–58, 270–71
as spinster, 259
Symphony Society founded by, 266–67
WPA supported by, 270–71
Hogg, James Stephen, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 265, 266, 273
Hogg, Mike, 258, 259, 261, 266, 268
Hogg, Sallie Stinson, 258, 259
Hogg, Thomas Elisha, 258
Hogg, Tom, 258, 259, 261, 266n
Hogg, Will, 258, 259, 261, 266, 268, 273, 274
Hogg Foundation, 273–75
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 281
Homans, Abigail Adams, 55–56
Homestead, The, 197
Honeymoon Cottage, 275
Hopkins, Mark, 185, 186
Hopkins, Mary, see Emery, Mary
Hopkins, Richard H., 159
horse racing, 237–38
Hotchkiss, Maria, 212
Hôtel de Hirsch, 201, 202
Hotel Emery, 157, 158
Houdini, Harry, 235
Houston, 262, 266
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 263, 276–77
Houston Post, 272
Houston Symphony Society, 266–67
Howe, Julia Ward, 69
Howe, Maud, 73, 75
Hubbard, Elisha Dyer, 146
Hundred Year Association, 254
Hunt, Myron, 206
Hunt, Richard Morris, 197–98
Huntington, Arabella Duval Yarrington Worsham:
appearance of, 187–88, 196, 209
art collected by, 199–200, 201, 207, 208, 210, 211, 216
background of, 187–90, 191–92, 281
Birley’s portrait of, 208–9
Collis Huntington’s marriage to, 196–97
Collis Huntington’s premarital relations with, 188, 192–93, 195–196
death of, 209
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