Lot 67
  • 67

Abbott Handerson Thayer

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Abbott Handerson Thayer
  • Study for "Harry Whiting, Nephew of the Artist"
  • signed Abbott H. Thayer (upper right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 26 by 20 inches
  • (66 by 58.9 cm)
  • Painted in 1903-05.

Provenance

M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by 1923
Acquired from the above with funds from Friends of American Art, 1923

Exhibited

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress:  Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1933, no. 481
Chicago History Museum, 1934 (possibly)
New London, Connecticut, Lyman Allen Museum, Abbott H. Thayer 1849-1921, 1961, no. 19
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Four Centuries of American Art, 1963-64

Literature

Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 173
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago:  A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 447

Condition

Oil on canvas. Canvas is not lined. SURFACE: in good condition, generally; a small scratch at upper center, scattered craquelure with stretcher marks; canvas is slightly slack; dirty varnish. UNDER UV: A dot of inpainting at upper right and a 2 inch line of inpainting at lower left.
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