About Theodora W. Thayer
Lived 1868 – 1905 (aged 36–37). Theodora W. Thayer was an American painter.
Theodora Thayer (1868-1905) was an American painter best known for her miniatures.
She studied with Joseph DeCamp in Boston.
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.
“Her fine portrait of Bliss Carman is considered one of the memorable achievements in American miniature painting.”
Works Thayer's works can be found in collections at: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Harvard University, Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Who was Theodora W. Thayer?
American painter (1868-1905)
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Theodora W. Thayer was born in 1868.
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Theodora W. Thayer died in 1905.
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Theodora W. Thayer was a painter.
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Theodora W. Thayer was American.
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