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St Ives Artists: J. M. W. Turner, Walter Sickert, Barbara Hepworth, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Bernard Leach, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham |
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English |
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Paperback |
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164 |
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2010-05-07 |
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1155855590 |
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Books LLC |
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0.55 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.35 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: J. M. W. Turner, Walter Sickert, Barbara Hepworth, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Bernard Leach, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Patrick Heron, Raymond Ray-Jones, Ben Nicholson, Tony O'malley, Bryan Pearce, Winifred Nicholson, Alfred Wallis, Peter Lanyon, Frances Hodgkins, Janet Leach, Kurt Jackson, Christopher Wood, Ronald Ferns, John Noble Barlow, Sydney Laurence, John Hoskin, Albert Moulton Foweraker, Terry Frost, List of St Ives Artists, Simon Nicholson, Trevor Bell, Bryan Wynter, St Ives School, William Holt Yates Titcomb, Faust Lang, Adrian Scott Stokes, William Marshall, Roger Hilton, John Wells, Patrick Hayman, Sandra Blow, Seb West, Rose Hilton, Anthony Frost, Richard Short, Breon O'casey, Luke Frost, Algernon Talmage, Gwilt Jolley, Bob Crossley, Denis Mitchell, Bob Law, Jessica Cooper. Excerpt: Abbott Handerson Thayer Abbott Handerson Thayer (August 12, 1849 May 29, 1921) was an American artist , naturalist and teacher. As a painter of portraits , figures, animals and landscapes , he enjoyed a certain prominence during his lifetime, as shown by the fact that his paintings are in the most important U.S. art collections. In the last third of his life, he worked together with his son, Gerald Handerson Thayer, on a major book about protective coloration in nature, titled Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of Disguise Through Color and Pattern; Being a Summary of Abbott H. Thayer s Disclosures . First published by Macmillan in 1909, then reissued in 1918, it had a widespread impact on the use of military camouflage during World War I . He also influenced American art through his efforts as a teacher, taking on apprentices in his New Hampshire studio. Formative years Thayer was born in Boston, Massachusetts . The son of a country doctor, his childhood...
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