< Winter Morning Sunrise at Monadnock, 1911. "You don't look at the painting to see what Mount Monadnock looked like. You look at the painting to see Thayer," said Richard Murray, senior curator, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, in the movie.Richard Meryman spoke on the Dublin Art Colony: A Medley of Great Gifts with pictures, lore, anecdotes and surprises on Friday, July 16 at Amos Fortune Forum.
"It’s nucleus was Abbott Thayer," said Meryman, "a major American painter who settled near Dublin Lake in 1888. He was an inspirational magnet and a thicket of peculiarities ...who believed his painting was dictation from a God who also pervaded nature. This led to a theory of concealing coloration of animals and birds, which eventually became military camouflage." Meryman continues, "Thayer's friend George de Forest Brush...
"It’s nucleus was Abbott Thayer," said Meryman, "a major American painter who settled near Dublin Lake in 1888. He was an inspirational magnet and a thicket of peculiarities ...who believed his painting was dictation from a God who also pervaded nature. This led to a theory of concealing coloration of animals and birds, which eventually became military camouflage." Meryman continues, "Thayer's friend George de Forest Brush...
