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Winged Figure

Abbott Handerson Thayer · 1889

Provenance

Ownership history

Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1889; Gimbel Brothers, New York, 1946; Julius H. Weitzner, New York, 1947; sold by him to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Ninth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, May 16–Aug. 31, 1914, cat. no. 113.
Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fifth Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Dec. 15, 1914–Jan. 24, 1915, cat. no. 71.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Carnegie Institute, Abbott H. Thayer, Apr. 24–June 30, 1919, cat. no. 2, ill. opposite p. 30.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Abbott Handerson Thayer, Mar. 20–Apr. 30, 1922, cat. no. 32, ill.;
Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Abbott H. Thayer Memorial Exhibition, May 9–31, 1922, cat. no. 21, ill.
New York, Gimbel Brothers, Turn of the Century American Paintings, Dec. 1, 1946.
Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
Syracuse, NY, Everson Museum, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Sept. 17–Nov. 7, 1982; New York, National Academy of Design, Dec. 10–Jan. 23, 1983.
Washington DC, National Museum of American Art, Abbott Thayer: The Nature of Art, Apr. 23–Sept. 6, 1999.

Literature

“The Summer Exhibition of American Paintings at the Albright Art Gallery,” Academy Notes 9 (July 1914), ill. p. 82.
Leila Mechlin, “The Albright Art Gallery,” Art and Progress, 5, 11 (September 1914), ill. p. 395.
Helen M. Beatty, “Abbot H. Thayer,” Scribner’s Magazine, 70, 3 (Septmeber 1921), 379–384, ill. opp. p. 259.
Helen M. Beatty, “Abbott H. Thayer,” American Magazine of Art, 12, 10 (1921), 328–334, ill. p. 333.
Bulletin of Smith College Hillyer Art Gallery, March 30, 1922, ill. on cover.
Nathaniel Pousette–Dart, Abbot H. Thayer (Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1923).
Smith College Handbook (1925), ill. p. 54.
Nelson C. White, Abbott H. Thayer, Painter and Naturalist (Connecticut Printers, Inc., 1951), ill. p. 288.
Thomas B. Brumbaugh, “The Monumental Art of Abbott H. Thayer,” Antiques, 103 (June 1973), 1134–1140, ill. p. 1137, fig. 6.
Thomas B. Brumbaugh, “An Artist and His Model: Abbott H. Thayer and Clara May,” American Art Journal, 10, 1 (May 1978), 24–32, ill. p. 24.
Georg Feurstein, Sacred Sexuality (Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1993), ill.
Excerpts from Sister Serene’s Diary Concerning Her Journey from the Worldly Life to Becoming A Child of God (Santa Cruz, CA: Wilderness Retreat Center, 1994), ill.

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