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Stevenson Memorial
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About this work
Apart from the title, our only clue to the subject of this work is the inscription "VAEA," the name of the mountain in Samoa where Robert Louis Stevenson is buried. Stevenson's poetic tales of men at war with themselves had dazzled Abbott Handerson Thayer, whose own life was marked by exaltation and despair. And, like the Scotsman's most memorable characters, the Stevenson Memorial carries a hidden story.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineStevenson Memorial. 1903. Abbott Handerson Thayer, born Boston, MA 1849-died Dublin, NH 1921. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly. CC0.
