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Angel
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About this work
Abbott Handerson Thayer is recognized today for his ethereal angels, portraits of woman and children, landscapes, and delicate flower paintings. Angel is both a portrait of his daughter Mary at age eleven and an allegory of hope and spirituality. Thayer manipulated the paint with brooms, scrapers, his fingers, and even a paint tube to achieve his effects. The Renaissance-inspired frame, called a tabernacle type, was designed specifically for this painting by American architect Stanford White.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineAngel. 1887. Abbott Handerson Thayer, born Boston, MA 1849-died Dublin, NH 1921. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly. CC0.
