Cornish+Headlands

Date: 1898
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1929/1929.6.115_1a.jpg?itok=4-VcDEEJ width="347" height="258" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/cornish-headlands-23929"]] || Title: **Cornish Headlands**

Artist: **Abbott Handerson Thayer** Born: Boston, Massachusetts 1849 Died: Monadnock, New Hampshire 1921

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 30 1/8 x 40 1/8 in. (76.5 x 101.8 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of John Gellatly

Accession: 1929.6.115 || While traveling near Cornwall, England, in the summer of 1898, Thayer wrote about this painting to his friend, the architect Stanford White, saying it was “one of a very few things I've done that I love and know to be something like great art.…I sat down on that headland and just reveled in the wonderful fact that its splendor could be to some extent perpetuated on that canvas.”
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Thayer, Roosevelt, and Camouflage Thayer in On Camouflage Thayer Writes for Scientific Monthly
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