"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
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Art Mentioned
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Thomas Fletcher
1825
Mary Cassatt
1883–85
William Merritt Chase
1886
Frederick William MacMonnies
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
Marcantonio Raimondi
ca. 1517–20
Auguste Renoir
1878
dated 1075 AH/1664–65 CE
Scandinavian
600 BCE