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...died in 1919) had a hawk eye for Oriental art, his eye for American painting suffered a Victorian squint. Today Freer officials blush a bit at the gallery's American collection and turn purple when forced to admit that the public favorite at the Freer is Abbott Thayer's Virgin (opposite...
Actually, Thayer (1849-1921) was a better painter than modern critics are likely to allow. Critic James Flexner, for example, dismisses Thayer as a "workman" who "worked out a delicate and bloodless version of femininity which, draped or even undraped, was more pleasing to refined purchasers than the hardy realism of Homer and Eakins...
...Thayer's Virgin does look wrapped in taffy, the composition is static and the whole atmosphere is fuzzed with sweetness. But the picture's virtues more than offset its defects. It is magnificently drawn, subtly radiant in color, and a straightforward expression of the artist's reverence for girlhood and love of children. It can speak, gently, to the heart. Such works as Thayer's have been unjustly eclipsed in a critical age that winces at any expression of pure and lofty sentiments. Luckily, laymen are not so biased...
Hollis, with six-four center Charles Mallone scoring 28 points, won a hard-fought double overtime 39-36 contest from Thayer North last night. The victory gave Hollis the championship of the first half of the freshman intramural basketball program...
...Thayer was unable to cope with Mallone's height, and consistently fouled in a vain attempt to stop...