Parents: Ezra Ripley and Ethel Randolph (Clark) Thayer. Wife of Donald Carter Starr. Married: December 13, 1933.
Known as Polly, Ethel Thayer was active as a portrait, landscape and still-life painter in Boston in the early 20th century, working at Fenway Studios from 1932 to 1936. Her mediums were watercolor, pastel, and lithography, and her style began as Boston School academic and changed to progressive modern, many of them naive in the tradition of Henri Rousseau.
STARR--Polly Thayer. The only living painter included in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' landmark exibition ''A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940,'' died peacefully at her Lexington home on August 30. She would have been 102 today. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and studied painting with Philip Hale, Charles Hawthorne, Harry Wickey, Jean Despujols, Hans Hoffman and Carl Nelson. Her art is represented in many museums and universities throughout the country, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, MA. She leaves two daughters, Victoria Starr of Hingham, MA and Dinah Starr of Boston. A memorial service will be held at Cambridge Friends Meeting, Cambridge, MA on November 11, at 2 PM.
Published in The New York Times, November 8, 2006
Known as Polly, Ethel Thayer was active as a portrait, landscape and still-life painter in Boston in the early 20th century, working at Fenway Studios from 1932 to 1936. Her mediums were watercolor, pastel, and lithography, and her style began as Boston School academic and changed to progressive modern, many of them naive in the tradition of Henri Rousseau.
STARR--Polly Thayer. The only living painter included in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' landmark exibition ''A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940,'' died peacefully at her Lexington home on August 30. She would have been 102 today. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and studied painting with Philip Hale, Charles Hawthorne, Harry Wickey, Jean Despujols, Hans Hoffman and Carl Nelson. Her art is represented in many museums and universities throughout the country, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, MA. She leaves two daughters, Victoria Starr of Hingham, MA and Dinah Starr of Boston. A memorial service will be held at Cambridge Friends Meeting, Cambridge, MA on November 11, at 2 PM.
Published in The New York Times, November 8, 2006
Parents: Ezra Ripley and Ethel Randolph (Clark) Thayer. Wife of Donald Carter Starr. Married: December 13, 1933.
Known as Polly, Ethel Thayer was active as a portrait, landscape and still-life painter in Boston in the early 20th century, working at Fenway Studios from 1932 to 1936. Her mediums were watercolor, pastel, and lithography, and her style began as Boston School academic and changed to progressive modern, many of them naive in the tradition of Henri Rousseau.
STARR--Polly Thayer. The only living painter included in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' landmark exibition ''A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940,'' died peacefully at her Lexington home on August 30. She would have been 102 today. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and studied painting with Philip Hale, Charles Hawthorne, Harry Wickey, Jean Despujols, Hans Hoffman and Carl Nelson. Her art is represented in many museums and universities throughout the country, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, MA. She leaves two daughters, Victoria Starr of Hingham, MA and Dinah Starr of Boston. A memorial service will be held at Cambridge Friends Meeting, Cambridge, MA on November 11, at 2 PM.
Published in The New York Times, November 8, 2006
Known as Polly, Ethel Thayer was active as a portrait, landscape and still-life painter in Boston in the early 20th century, working at Fenway Studios from 1932 to 1936. Her mediums were watercolor, pastel, and lithography, and her style began as Boston School academic and changed to progressive modern, many of them naive in the tradition of Henri Rousseau.
STARR--Polly Thayer. The only living painter included in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' landmark exibition ''A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940,'' died peacefully at her Lexington home on August 30. She would have been 102 today. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and studied painting with Philip Hale, Charles Hawthorne, Harry Wickey, Jean Despujols, Hans Hoffman and Carl Nelson. Her art is represented in many museums and universities throughout the country, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, MA. She leaves two daughters, Victoria Starr of Hingham, MA and Dinah Starr of Boston. A memorial service will be held at Cambridge Friends Meeting, Cambridge, MA on November 11, at 2 PM.
Published in The New York Times, November 8, 2006
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