Baltimore's Mount Vernon Place is famous for the beauty of its exterior architecture, but the interiors in the area are also stunning. This fall, the Garrett-Jacobs Mansion Endowment Fund, Baltimore Heritage, the Mount Vernon Place Conservancy and the Engineers Club invite you to virtually view - and bid on - artwork featuring some of the area's most beautiful interiors.
Dr. and Mrs. Jacobs were very close friends of Dr. and Mrs. William Osler. They traveled together many times, and lots of notes between the two couples still exist. Dr. Jacobs is mentioned dozens of times in Harvey Cushing's "Life of William Osler" and Cushing relates many anecdotes from Osler and Jacob's friendship. In fact, many of Dr. Jacobs' letters were used in the second of Cushing's two books on Osler.
In one passage, Dr. Osler says how much he is looking forward to meeting up with his friend while Jacobs is in London for the coronation of King George V, as well as for an important auction. At another time, Cushing writes about the two men, along with Revere Osler, on a fishing adventure in Scotland.
On the occasion of Dr. Osler's death in 1919, Dr. Jacobs commissioned a bronze in the likeness of Dr. Osler, to be cast by one of the leading foundries in Paris.
Our good friend, Dr. Charley Bryan wrote a great article about the friendship of these two powerful and influential men for the National Institutes of Health.
For more information on the art show and sale, please click here.
Hello Meg, That sounds like a pretty intense friendship. I like my friends, but I have never commissioned busts of any of them. I just looked up the Garrett-Jacobs house. It is so elaborate it kind of looks more like a Hollywood stage set than a real house. Probably only the most complicated and ornate views are recorded on the internet, without giving a real sense of circulating around the house.
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No, the whole place is like that. Stanford White designed the main part, and then John Russell Pope (national gallery in dc) designed the "newer" part. I used to be the membership director at the Club that's there now, and trust me, every inch of the house is adorned. My favorite was the main bathroom, which had marble walls, which had been painted with watercolors before the stone was honed. it is really amazing. Charley's article is a good explanation.
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