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My Children (Mary, Gerald, And Gladys Thayer)

ca. 1897
oil on canvas
86 1/4 x 61 1/8 in. (219.1 x 155.1 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Nantucket Sand Dune

ca. 1890
oil on canvas
18 x 40 1/8 in. (45.6 x 101.8 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
This painting was originally attributed to Abbott Handerson Thayer, but closer study reveals it to be by Philadelphia artist Charles Morgan McIlhenney. McIlhenney exhibited a few times at the Boston Art Club and spent time sketching on Nantucket, probably in the late 1880s. Many painters in the late nineteenth century went on sketching trips to New...
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Portrait Of A Lady (Mrs. William B. Cabot)

1900-1902
oil on canvas
39 x 32 3/8 in. (99.1 x 82.3 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
This is a portrait of the wife of William Brooks Cabot, an accomplished civil engineer in Boston and a close friend of the artists. Abbott Thayer began working on Mrs. Cabots portrait when he was preparing to depart for Cornwall, England. He not only carried the canvas abroad with him, but also took Mrs. Cabots dress so he could refer to it as he...
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Portrait Of A Woman (Miss Gertrude Bloede)

ca. 1881
oil on canvas
16 5/8 x 14 in. (42.2 x 35.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
Gertrude Bloede was the sister of Abbott Thayers first wife, Kate. The Bloedes were German immigrants who lived in Brooklyn and regularly entertained a circle of intellectuals. Both daughters were highly creative and independent: Kate was an artist, and Gertrude was a noted writer who published her romantic poetry under the pseudonym Stuart Sterne....
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Roseate Spoonbills, Study For Book Concealing Coloration In The Animal Kingdom

ca. 1905-1909
oil on paperboard
22 7/8 x 26 1/4 in. (58.2 x 66.6 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Roses

1890
oil on canvas
22 1/4 x 31 3/8 in. (56.6 x 79.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Stevenson Memorial

1903
oil on canvas
81 5/8 x 60 1/8 in. (207.2 x 152.6 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
Apart from the title, our only clue to the subject of this work is the inscription "VAEA," the name of the mountain in Samoa where Robert Louis Stevenson is buried. Stevenson's poetic tales of men at war with themselves had dazzled Abbott Handerson Thayer, whose own life was marked by exaltation and despair. And, like the Scotsman's most memorable...
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Tiger's Head

ca. 1874
oil on canvas
27 x 22 in. (68.6 x 55.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Virgin Enthroned

1891
oil on canvas
72 1/2 x 52 1/2 in. (184.3 x 133.2 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Caritas

1894-1895
oil on canvas
85 x 55 in. (215.9 x 139.7 cm)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

notes
Description: An idealized female figure flanked by a nude little boy and girl, her arms raised over their heads, and her eyes closed.
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