...artists, with an original, vibrant music score, character voices for Teddy Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and Thayer himself, woven together with his paintings, patrons, artist friends of the Dublin Art Colony, and scenes of the beautiful New Hampshire countryside that inspired his communion with nature, all bring to life this fascinating history, never before told to a viewing audience. At right, Pamela Peabody at the movie premiere with the banner of Thayer's Monadnock Angel (fine art reproduction with permission of the Addison Gallery of American Art - as state-of-the-art digital prints on water-resistant satin, available for classroom display).The artist and naturalist gave up painting society portraits that earned him fame and fortune so that he could live close to Mount Monadnock and devote his time to studying how animals conceal themselves from predators. During World War I, Thayer, passionate in all he undertook, worked to persuade the Allies to adopt his camouflage theories to safeguard troops and ships. Few understood his strategic insights, until long after.
Invisible has appeared on over 100 PBS stations across the country including New Hampshire Public Television, at the Smithsonian and Free Gallery in Washington and several film festivals. Invisible involved four years of research and interviews, filming and editing, and is the newest in a series of films about American artists produced by Pamela Peabody of PRP Productions. 
Through outreach programs in schools and art centers, a series of screenings, broadcasts, and presentations in community libraries, museums, colleges, continuing education programs, senior centers, and more, the film is reaching adults and teens. This new blog offers a Camouflage Curriculum to reach a wider audience of high school and college students. For more information contact PRP Productions.
The film was inspired by a sense of responsibility to the cultural community of Dublin and the wider Monadnock artistic community as well as the history of American art, and the memory of David Murray, curator at the Archive of American Art in the Smithsonian Institution. The film also establishes the background for the current movement of the Monadnock Art Colony which has grown from the Dublin Art Colony, in which Thayer was the foremost magnetic personality among many gifted painters -- including Richard S. Meryman, Sr., Alexander James, George deForest Brush, Joseph Lindon Smith, and nearby, Mary Knowlton, Barry Faulkner, Rockwell Kent, William Preston Phelps, Ben Foster, and Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and later, BeaTrix Sagendorf, Gouri Ivanov-Rinov, and today Georgia Fletcher, Thomas Blagden, Katharine Wolfe, Anne W. B. Blodgett, Daniel Thibeault and Kitty Cloud. At right, Pamela Peabody at the premiere with Barbara de Marneffe at the Colonial Theater in Keene, August 2008.
