Acclaimed Biography Examines Life of Revered Museum Founder
June 12, 2024
June 12, 2024
HOLLAND, Michigan, June 12 -- Hope College issued the following news:
As she visited Boston's famed Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Dr. Natalie Dykstra of the Hope College English faculty couldn't help but wonder about the founder for whom it's named. Who was the person who did something that for a woman in 1903 was almost unthinkable: design, build, fill and endow a museum for the public to enjoy in perpetuity?
Dykstra has spent the last 10 years seeking an answer, co . . .
As she visited Boston's famed Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Dr. Natalie Dykstra of the Hope College English faculty couldn't help but wonder about the founder for whom it's named. Who was the person who did something that for a woman in 1903 was almost unthinkable: design, build, fill and endow a museum for the public to enjoy in perpetuity?
Dykstra has spent the last 10 years seeking an answer, co . . .