Winged Figure
Abbott Handerson Thayer (American, 1849–1921)
1889
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Materials & printing
Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
This female angel is one of many that Abbott Handerson Thayer painted during his career. Originally a painter of animals, Thayer created portraits and then allegorical figures like this example after training in Paris. The artist wrote of his seraphic subjects, “I have put on wings probably more to symbolize an exalted atmosphere . . . where one need not explain the action of his figures.” Other late 19th-century artists such as Augustus Saint-Gaudens also represented angelic female figures to personify what they perceived as the virtues of women. In Winged Figure, Thayer mixed this idealism with a level of naturalism, particularizing the woman’s features and giving her form a sense of mass and gravity.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 130.8 × 95.9 cm (51 1/2 × 37 3/4 in.)
Museum record · 3 owners · 7 exhibitions
Provenance
- Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1889.
- Gimbel Brothers, New York, 1946.
- Julius H. Weitzner, New York, 1947; sold by him to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.
Exhibitions
- Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Ninth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, May 16–Aug. 31, 1914, cat..
- Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fifth Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Dec. 15, 1914–Jan. 24, 1915, cat..
- Pittsburgh, Pa., Carnegie Institute, Abbott H. Thayer, Apr. 24–June 30, 1919, cat., ill. opposite.
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Abbott Handerson Thayer, Mar. 20–Apr. 30, 1922, cat., ill.; Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Abbott H. Thayer Memorial Exhibition, May 9–31, 1922, cat., ill. New York, Gimbel Brothers, Turn of the Century American Paintings, Dec. 1, 1946.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat..
- Syracuse, NY, Everson Museum, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Sept. 17–Nov. 7, 1982; New York, National Academy of Design, Dec. 10–Jan. 23, 1983.
- Washington DC, National Museum of American Art, Abbott Thayer: The Nature of Art, Apr. 23–Sept. 6, 1999.
