MFA Boston
- Full name: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
- Address: 465 Huntington Ave
- Vicinity: Forsyth Way
- Neighborhood of Fenway-Kenmore in Boston
| Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
| Jaffrey House, Interior Finish | Architectural Remnant | ||
| Museum of Fine Arts Boston archive collection |
| Work | Type | Creator | AsNotedIn |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bust of a Young Woman | Painting | ||
| Drug Store | Painting | ||
| Haystack in the Morning, Snow Effect | Painting | ||
| Mr and Mrs Ralph Izard | Painting | ||
| Portrait of Maria Bockenolle | Painting | ||
| Portrait of Reverend Johannes Elison | Painting | ||
| The Artist in his Studio | Painting | ||
| The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775 | Painting | ||
| The Sower (painting) | Painting | ||
| Washington at Dorchester Heights (painting) | Painting | ||
| Woman Sewing Before a Garden | Painting |
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1872/00/00 | Gen Charles G Loring | Work | Charles Loring is selected curator of what will eventually become the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. | |||
| 1895/00/00 | Sarah Choate Sears | Client | Sarah Sears commissions John Sargent to paint a portrait of her six year old daughter, Helen. The painting is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. A charcoal sketch by Sargent of Helen at age 17 is reproduced in Sargent Portrait Drawings. | |||
| 1895/00/00 | Helen Sears | Subject | Sarah Sears commissions John Sargent to paint a portrait of her six year old daughter, Helen. The painting is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. A charcoal sketch by Sargent of Helen at age 17 is reproduced in Sargent Portrait Drawings. | |||
| 1898/00/00 | Harvey D Parker | In Memoriam | Harvey D Parker leaves $100,000 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Established in 1898, the Harvey Drury Parker fund saved the Department of Prints that was threaten with extinction. | |||
| 1899/00/00 | The Museum of Fine Arts on Copley Square buys twelve acres on Huntington Avenue for a new building. | |||||
| 1909/00/00 | Guy Lowell | Architect | Museum of Fine Arts Boston moves from Copley Square in their new building. | |||
| 1917/00/00 | Quincy Adams Shaw | Benefactor | "The Sower" is made a gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw Jr and Mrs Marian Shaw Haughton, to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. | The Sower (painting) | ||
| 1917/00/00 | William Lindsey | Benefactor | William Lindsey establishes the Leslie Lindsey Mason Collection by donating gifts 560 musical instruments to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where he is a trustee. |
| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
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| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
| William Watts Sherman House |
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| Particulars for MFA Boston: | |
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| Art Culture | American Art |
| Area of Significance | Art |
| Sight Category | Building |
| Area of Significance | Fine Arts |
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| Travelers Challenge ID: | 237 |
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