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| Keywords: 1919, Thayer, Abbott Handerson, Monadnock, Winter Sunrise.jpg en Abbott Handerson Thayer American 1849 �1921 Monadnock Winter Sunrise 1919 Oil on canvas 133 x 158 cm 52 3/8 x 62 3/16 in frame 168 × 191 5 × 10 5 cm 66 1/8 × 75 3/8 × 4 1/8 in Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr y1953-56 Abbott Thayer established his reputation primarily with portraits of fashionable women evocative of his Parisian training He soon gravitated toward a more subdued aesthetic in which his subjects were invested with a serenity and solemnity suggesting an increasingly symbolic attitude toward painting Such an approach culminated in the allegorical tableaux and images of classically garbed often winged women he produced beginning around the time of his wife �s death in 1891 but also seems inherent in the hauntingly beautiful series of paintings of New Hampshire �s Mount Monadnock he created after moving nearby a decade later The expressive peak exerted a powerful attraction for Thayer serving as a spiritual and artistic touchstone From his home he painted repeated winter views of the dark forest leading up to the mountain �s snowy summit often as here at sunrise Obsessively conscientious about his work Thayer evolved an unusual studio practice in an effort to obtain optimal results Painting while flanked by assistants who copied his images brushstroke for brushstroke the artist could alternate between versions of a single composition in the same state of completion while experimenting with different pictorial effects He made little distinction between his original and these duplicates as he called them moving frequently between them in a manner that obscured such divisions Monadnock Winter Sunrise is among the latest and most successful examples of Thayer �s Monadnock views produced in this way The rising sun-tipped shoulder of the mountain and its snow-capped peak beyond are echoed as if in reflection by the inversely descending edge of the wooded foreground which seems bowed by the weight of the massive form above 1919 Princeton University Art Museum Abbott Handerson Thayer other versions PD-old-auto-1923 1921 Uploaded with UploadWizard American art in the Princeton University Art Museum American paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum Paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum Modern art in the Princeton University Art Museum Abbott Handerson Thayer Mount Monadnock | ||||
