Gladys Thayer (also known as Gladys Thayer Reasoner) (1886–1945) was an American painter and teacher.

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.

Notable collections

*"Hooded Warblers, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom" - ca. 1900 – 1909, watercolor on paper,

stencil Stencilling produces an image or pattern on a surface, by applying pigment to a surface through an intermediate object, with designed holes in the intermediate object, to create a pattern or image on a surface, by allowing the pigment to reach ...

, and oil on wood,

Smithsonian American Art Museum The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds o ...

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1886 births 1945 deaths American women painters 20th-century American painters People from Woodstock, Connecticut {{US-painter-1880s-stub