Abbott Handerson Thayer ~ Angel ~ 1889
Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849 – 1921) was an American artist. Thayer is often claimed to have been a naturalist but this classification is misleading. He is best known for his angel paintings which reflect the spirit of the Pre-Raphealites. Granted, his spontaneity and improvisation of his artistic methods was very different than the technique of Pre-Raphealites. He began to paint winged in the late 1880s to express the transcendent qualities he saw in the female subject, he said:
“Doubtless my lifelong passion for birds has helped to incline me to work wings into my pictures; but primarily I have put on wings probably more to symbolize an exalted atmosphere (above the realm of genre painting) where one need not explain the action of the figures.”
Abbott Handerson Thayer ~ Boy and Angel ~ 1918
Abbott Handerson Thayer ~ Angel
Abbott Handerson Thayer ~ Caritas ~ 1895
Celestial Venus 
As it hath been said…
“…..All Angels are spirits…but not all spirits are angels….”
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Blue Spiral
“…Even though our eyes only capture or see less than one percent of the electromagnetic spectrum, most people claim or actually believe they’ve seen it all. While the only thing they haven’t seen or actually refuse to see is their own ignorance...”
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