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Winged Figure  1889

by Abbott Handerson Thayer

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 ...
Size: 
130.8 × 95.9 cm (51 1/2 × 37 3/4 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago