A Collection of Five Letters to Various Recipients, as well as a letter from Charles Freer to Abbott Thayer discussing a Recent Visit and the Potential Purchase of Thayer’s “Monadnock in Winter” and “Monadnock Mountain.”
Various Places: 1881-1917. A small but significant collection of letters from the artist Abbott Thayer to various recipients, showing Thayer’s obsessions with the natural landscape, color, and the artistic process. Of particular note are a passionate letter from early in Thayer’s career to a fellow artist, a letter discussing butterflies.....