Nationality American Style Portraiture
Floral art Parents Abbott Handerson Thayer | Known for Painting Spouse(s) David Reasoner | |
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Born July 17, 1886 ( 1886-07-17 ) South Woodstock, Connecticut, United States Died 25 August 1945, Washington, D.C., United States | ||
Gladys Thayer (also known as Gladys Thayer Reasoner) (1886-1945) was an American painter and teacher.
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Life
Gladys Thayer was born in 1886 in South Woodstock, Connecticut. She was the child of artist Abbott Handerson Thayer. Thayer was a frequent model in her father's paintings, including My Children (Mary, Gerald, and Gladys Thayer) (circa 1897)---alongside her older sister Mary, and her older brother Gerald---and in the "Winged Figure" series (1904-11).
She was married to artist David Reasoner (b.1886-d.1960). She had four children with Reasoner, Allen (1922-1943), Jean (1923- ), Margaret "Peggy" (1925-2013), Richard (1927- ).
Her father taught her how to paint. She painted flowers and portraiture. She died in 1945 in Washington, D.C..
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