Addison Gallery of American Art
Phillips Academy
Andover, MA 01810-4166
Andover, MA 01810-4166
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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
About Polly Ethel (Ripley Starr) Thayer: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (10)
All MuseumsBoston Athenaeum
10 1/2 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park
51 Sandy Pond Road
Lincoln, MA 01773-2600Fogg Art Museum: Harvard University Art Museums
Harvard University
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
North Campus Drive
Box 23300
Provo, UT 84602-1400Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115New Britain Museum of American Art
56 Lexington Street
New Britain, CT 06052The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102