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1904 Boston, Massachusettes - 2006. Known for: Portrait, figure, floral and landscape painting.
Known as Polly, Ethel Thayer was active as a portrait, landscape and still-life painter in Boston in the early 20th century, working at Fenway Studios from 1932 to 1936. Her mediums were watercolor,... Read full biography
Known as Polly, Ethel Thayer was active as a portrait, landscape and still-life painter in Boston in the early 20th century, working at Fenway Studios from 1932 to 1936. Her mediums were watercolor, pastel, and lithography, and her style began as Boston School academic and changed to progressive... Read full biography
Known as Polly, Ethel Thayer was active as a portrait, landscape and still-life painter in Boston in the early 20th century, working at Fenway Studios from 1932 to 1936. Her mediums were watercolor, pastel, and lithography, and her style began as Boston School academic and changed to progressive modern, many of them naive in the tradition of Henri Rousseau. Thayer was born in Boston, the daughter of Professor Ezra Thayer, who was Dean of the Harvard Law School. Her art studies included drawing... Read full biography
Known as Polly, Ethel Thayer was active as a portrait, landscape and still-life painter in Boston in the early 20th century, working at Fenway Studios from 1932 to 1936. Her mediums were watercolor, pastel, and lithography, and her style began as Boston School academic and changed to progressive modern, many of them naive in the tradition of Henri Rousseau. Thayer was born in Boston, the daughter of Professor Ezra Thayer, who was Dean of the Harvard Law School. Her art studies included drawing at the Museum School of the Fine Arts in Boston, private lessons with Philip Hale, and lessons in Provincetown in the 1920s with Charles Hawthorne and in the summer of 1933 with Hans Hofmann. She also attended Le Grande Chaumiere in Paris in 1928,... Read full biography
Known as Polly, Ethel Thayer was active as a portrait, landscape and still-life painter in Boston in the early 20th century, working at Fenway Studios from 1932 to 1936. Her mediums were watercolor, pastel, and lithography, and her style began as Boston School academic and changed to progressive modern, many of them naive in the tradition of Henri Rousseau. Thayer was born in Boston, the daughter of Professor Ezra Thayer, who was Dean of the Harvard Law School. Her art studies included drawing at the Museum School of the Fine Arts in Boston, private lessons with Philip Hale, and lessons in Provincetown in the 1920s with Charles Hawthorne and in the summer of 1933 with Hans Hofmann. She also attended Le Grande Chaumiere in Paris in 1928, and in 1931, the Art Students League in New York as a student of lithographer Harry Wickey. In 1932 she studied at t... Read full biography