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Helen Sears

Artist Abbott Handerson Thayer (American, 1849-1921)

Date1891-1892

DimensionsFrame: 66 5/8 × 53 1/8 × 2 3/4 in. (169.2 × 134.9 × 7 cm)

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott

Object number

1958.26

Not on View

Published ReferencesCarnegie Institute, Exhibition of Paintings by Abbott H. Thayer, Pittsburgh, 1913, p. 37 (in "record of Paintings," as Portrait of Her Child, owned by Mrs. J. Montgomery Sears).

Pousette-Dart, N., Abbott H. Thayer, New York, 1923, repr. p. 33.

White, N., Abbott H. Thayer, Painter and Naturalist, Hartford, 1951, pp. XX, 60, 61, 62, repr.

"Art and American Life," The Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 7, no. 3, Autumn 1964, pp. 57-62, repr. p. 61.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, p. 107, pl. 94.

Strickler, Susan E., "American Paintings at the Toledo Museum of Art," Antiques, vol. 116, no. 5, Nov. 1979, p. 1117, repr. (col.) pl. XV.

Gray, Nina and Suzanne Smeaton, "Within Gilded Borders: the Frames of Stanford White," American Art, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring 1993, pp. 33-45, repr. p. 42, fig. 15.

Wilner, Eli, Gilded Edge: Art of the Frame, San Francisco, 2000, p. 94, fig. 79, p. 100.

Gallati, Barbara Dayer, Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children, Brooklyn , Brooklyn Museum, 2004, p. 203, fig. 78, 204.

Exhibition HistoryNew York, Society of American Artists, Fourteenth Exhibition, 1892, no. 212 (as Portrait of a Child).

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1922, no. 37.

New York, Portraits, Inc., Portraits of Personalities, Past and Present, 1958, no. 45.

Syracuse, Everson Museum, Abbot Handerson Thayer, 1982, no. 35, p. 56, repr. (col.) pl. 5, p. 52.

Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, N.H. 1982-83.

New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, American Paintings from the Toledo Museum of Art, 1986.

National Academy Museum-NYC (National Academy of Design, NYC), New York, N.Y. 1975.

Hamburg, Bucerius Kunst Forum, High Society: American Portraits of the Gilded Age, 2008, no. 6, p. 90, repr. p. 91 (col.).