- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1949.39
- People
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Abbott Handerson Thayer, American (Boston, MA 1849 - 1921 Monadnock, NY)
Gerald Thayer
- Title
- Study of the Artist's Son, Gerald (1883-1939)
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1896
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308240
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Graphite on brown cardboard
- Dimensions
- actual: 32.7 x 26.3 cm (12 7/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: graphite, l.r.: Abbott H. Thayer Feb 13 '96
- inscription: Feb 13 '96, l.r., graphite, signed, in artist's hand: My boy Gerald / Drawn by me, Scarborough Feb 13 '96 / Abbott H. Thayer
- inscription: verso, l.l., graphite: 10 1/2 x 13 / no mat
- inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: 10 1/2 x 13
- Provenance
- Giovanni Castano, Boston MA, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Giovanni Castano, in honor of Paul J. Sachs's 70th birthday
- Accession Year
- 1949
- Object Number
- 1949.39
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Drawn on the back of a mounted illustration of interior scene with mural. Illustration has been partly torn away from cardboard. Upside down from direction of drawing.
- Publication History
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Nelson White, Abbott H. Thayer: Painter and Naturalist, Connecticut Printers (Hartford, CT, 1951), plate unnumbered, at back of book
- Exhibition History
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Exhibition of the Work of Thayer and Twachtman, Century Association, New York, 03/01/1952 - 03/31/1952
Unidentified Exhibition, American Academy of Art and Letters, 1953, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 12/04/1953 - 12/23/1953
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