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Article: Nature of Abbott Thayer's artistic evolution well illustrated.(Arts)(Art)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 8, 1999
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Abbott Thayer's 1887 painting "Angel" is familiar even to the most casual museum-goer these days. From the cover of Time magazine to the Internet, the painting of the enigmatic winged figure gazing soulfully at the viewer has become an icon for the '90s - an image much associated with the resurgence of interest in angels and angel figures.
Even the august Smithsonian Institution has cashed in on the craze, reproducing the image on everything from inexpensive T-shirts to costly framed prints. It is the kind of blatant commercialism that artist Abbott Thayer (1849-1921) would have recognized. After all, he was painting during America's gilded age, a time when ...
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Article: Thayer Lodging Group Closes on the Sale of the 1,582-Room ...
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...ORLANDO, Fla. -- Thayer Lodging Group, an Annapolis, Maryland based private ... the sale represents a compounded annual return to Thayer's investors in excess of 40 percent," said Thayer Co-Chairman Frederic V. Malek. "The sale of ...
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