Annual Christmas Dinner

The Oxford and Cambridge Society of New England cordially invites you to the
Annual Christmas Dinner
Friday, December 12, 2025
6:30-10:30pm
Winchester Country Club

Our speaker will be Diana Seave Greenwald, William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

The Global Travels of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Although many wealthy Americans traveled internationally in the nineteenth century, Isabella Stewart Gardner (pictured) traveled more—and to more far-flung places—than most women of her era and status. This talk describes Gardner’s trips to almost forty countries using twenty-first-century borders. It also presents the creative collaged travel albums she made during these trips. Both the voyages and the albums had a profound effect on the creation of the idiosyncratic Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Analyzing these compendia and her journeys, provide unparalleled insight into the mind of the woman who would become one of the Gilded Age’s most celebrated—and misunderstood—civic innovators.

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Diana Seave Greenwald is an art historian and economic historian. Her work uses both statistical and qualitative analyses to explore the relationship between art and broader social and economic change during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly in the United States and France. Diana’s first book, Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art, was published by Princeton University Press in 2021.

She is currently the William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. At the Gardner she has written, co-authored, or edited many exhibition catalogs and books: Manet: A Model Family (2025, editor), Betye Saar: Heart of A Wanderer (2023, editor), Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums (2023, co-editor with Casey Riley), Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (2022, co-authored with Nathaniel Silver), and Isabella Stewart Gardner: Dog Lover (2020).

Prior to joining the Gardner, she was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., working in the departments of American and British Paintings and Modern Prints and Drawings. She received a D.Phil. in History from the University of Oxford, Wadham College. She was co-supervised by Professor Kevin O’Rourke and Professor Michael Hatt (University of Warwick). Before doctoral study, Diana earned an M.Phil. in Economic and Social History from Oxford, Wadham and a Bachelor’s degree in Art History from Columbia University.

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Attire for gentlemen will be black tie, college blazer or business suit.

The event is open to OxCamNE members and their guests. Tickets cost $145 per person (a limited number of discounted tickets at $130 are available for student members) including wine and port with dinner and a reception drink. Please register online. For more information contact secretary@oxcamne.org. Advance reservation is required and should be made by Sunday November 30th.

The Winchester Country Club has ample parking. The Clubhouse and its main and upper parking lots are located across the street from 11 Arlington Street, Winchester; we recommend you put this address into your GPS. The club is a short Lyft/Uber ride from the Alewife T Station.

Sincerely,

Lorie Komlyn

Lorie Komlyn (Wolfson College, Cambridge),
President of the Society