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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
Polly Ethel (Ripley Starr) Thayer - Artist Info
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Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Street Scenes, Street Genre
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- •Europe
- •Provincetown, Massachusetts
Art Association
- •Boston Art Club
- •National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors
Art Teacher
- •Charles Hawthorne
- •Hans Hofmann
- •Harry Wickey
- •Jean Despujols
- •Philip Lesley Hale
Art School
- •Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Paris, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Cape Cod School of Art, Student
- •School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Julius Hallgarten Prize, National Academy of Design
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Centenarian Artist, Lived 100 Years or More
- •Figure Specialty
- •Studio at Fenway Studio Building, Boston
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •Copley Society of Boston
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors)
- •Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts