"Ever since I was young, manners have been beaten into me. I listened for years and years to my grandmother telling me to hold the door open."
Curator of American sculpture Thayer Tolles contemplates art created out of gratitude.
Connections: Thank You
Curator of American sculpture Thayer Tolles contemplates art created out of gratitude.
Thayer Tolles
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Thayer Tolles
Marica F. Vilcek Curator of American Painting and Sculpture, The American Wing
Marica F. Vilcek Curator of American Painting and Sculpture, The American Wing
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Thomas Fletcher
Sidney Gardiner
1825
Mary Cassatt
1883–85
William Merritt Chase
1886
Frederick William MacMonnies
Thiébaut frères
1893–94, cast 1894
Tiffany & Co.
1888
John McMullin
1799
Charlotte Gardner
December 23, 1813
Cypriot
ca. 475–450 BCE
Unknown
1920s
Julius Goldschmidt
1896
Walker Evans
1973–74
Inca artist(s)
1400–1535 CE
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1517–20
Auguste Renoir
1878
dated 1075 AH/1664–65 CE
Scandinavian
600 BCE