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'''Theodora Thayer''' (1868-1905) was an American painter best known for her miniatures.
She studied with Joseph DeCamp in Boston.<ref>Falk, Peter Hastings, ed., ''Who Was Who in American Art'', Sound View PressMadison Connecticut, 1985 p. 618</ref>
Thayer taught at the New York School of Art and the Art Students League and was a founding member of the American Society of Miniature Painters.<ref>Petteys, Chris, ''Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900'', G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985, p. 693</ref>
“Her fine portrait of Bliss Carman is considered one of the memorable achievements in American miniature painting.”<ref>Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, ''Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers'', Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986 p. 930</ref>
==Works== Thayer's works can be found in collections at: * Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania * Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York * Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio * Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts * Harvard University, Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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