Morris Carter

Morris Carter obtained his AB from Harvard in 1898 and his AM in 1899; he taught at Robert College in Constantinople, 1899-1902; and in 1903-1904 was an assistant at the Princeton University Library. From 1904 to 1910 he worked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, first as librarian and later as assistant director. In 1919 he became assistant director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum under Mrs. Gardner. Upon her death in 1924 he became director, a post he retained until 1954. He was the author of Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court, 1925.