Theodora Thayer (1868-1905) was an American painter best known for her miniatures.
She studied with Joseph DeCamp in Boston.Falk, Peter Hastings, ed., Who Was Who in American Art, Sound View PressMadison Connecticut, 1985 p. 618
Thayer taught at the New York School of Art and the Art Students League and was a founding member of the American Society of Miniature Painters.Petteys, Chris, Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985, p. 693
“Her fine portrait of Bliss Carman is considered one of the memorable achievements in American miniature painting.”Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986 p. 930
Works Thayer's works can be found in collections at: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Harvard University, Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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