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Preliminary Study for "A Virgin"

Artist Abbott Handerson Thayer (American, 1849-1921)
Dateca. 1891
Dimensions14 1/8 × 10 1/16 in. (35.9 × 25.6 cm)
frame: 22 × 18 × 1 3/4 in. (55.9 × 45.7 × 4.4 cm)
Classification(s)
  • PAINTING
Credit LineMuseum purchase, Joseph O. Eaton Fund
Terms
  • group portrait
  • study
Object numberM.2015.1
DescriptionThis painting is a preliminary study for Thayer's celebrated work, 'A Virgin' (Collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.). Thayer produced this study, and conceived the idea for 'A Virgin', following the death of his wife in 1891. The work is a group portrait of his children Gladys, Mary and Gerald.
Inscribedverso lower c. on frame: w.f. Scott 8-14-89
On View
Not on view
Provenancethe artist; to Edith Henderson, Dublin, NH and Cambridge, MA (gift from the artist, no relation to artist but rather his neighbor, who served as a model for one of the girls); to (Alfred J. Walker Fine Art, Boston, MA); to Jean and Graham Devoe Williford; to (Heritage Auctions, Dallas, TX); to present collection
Exhibitions
Exhibition History"The Cornish Art Colony: Giants of America's Gilded Age." Tyler, TX: Tyler Museum of Art, January 16-April 17, 2011. (no.23).
Teaching events
Mariel Capanna, ARTS 223, s22, 1
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