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American painter
Theodora Thayer (1868-1905) was an American painter best known for her miniatures.
She studied with
Joseph DeCamp in Boston.
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Thayer taught at the
New York School of Art and the
Art Students League and was a founding member of the
American Society of Miniature Painters.
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“Her fine portrait of
Bliss Carman is considered one of the memorable achievements in American miniature painting.”
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Works
Thayer's works can be found in collections at:
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Swarthmore College,
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
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Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, New York
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Cincinnati Art Museum,
Cincinnati, Ohio
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Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, Massachusetts
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Harvard University, Law School,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
References
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^ Falk, Peter Hastings, ed. , Who Was Who in American Art, Sound View PressMadison Connecticut, 1985 p. 618
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^ Petteys, Chris, Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985, p. 693
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^ Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986 p. 930