"Daniel Chester French, Paul Manship, and the John Pierpont Morgan Memorial for the Metropolitan Museum"

Thayer Tolles joined the American Wing staff in 1992. A sculpture specialist, she served as editor and co-author of a catalogue of The Met’s historic American sculpture collection (1999, 2001). Among her exhibitions are Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2009) and The American West in Bronze, 1850–1925 (2013). She contributed to the Museum’s sesquicentennial exhibition and publication, Making The Met, 1870-2020 (2020), co-curated New York Art Worlds, 1870-1890 (2022-24), and curated A Decade on Paper: Recent Acquisitions, 2014-2024 (2024-25). She also participated in major reinstallations of the American Wing galleries (2009, 2012, and 2024). A graduate of Williams College, she received her MA from the University of Delaware and her PhD from CUNY Graduate Center.