Abbott Thayer Wall Art

What's in the collection

Three winged figures and one tiger. The Angel stands square to the viewer with her wings lifted; the Winged Figure turns away into a pale sky; the Stevenson Memorial seats its angel on a dark rock beside Robert Louis Stevenson's name. The Tiger's Head comes from the other half of Thayer's life, the years he spent arguing that animal markings are protective colouring — a theory that eventually reached the navies of the First World War. All four sit inside fine art prints and beside the other Americans in American art wall art.

One house style

Thayer worked in chalky, desaturated colour — grey-greens, dusty rose, cloud white — so these are quiet prints that sit well in a bedroom or a hallway rather than shouting from a feature wall. White or natural frames suit the pale grounds; the Stevenson Memorial is the one that takes a darker frame. A pair of the winged figures hung together reads almost as a diptych. For work from the same decades with more colour, see impressionist wall art.

Sizes, paper and framing

Every design is offered on archival matte paper in nine sizes from 8\" x 12\" to 30\" x 40\", plus A4-A1 for European frames, and on matte canvas either stretched on a wooden bar or set in a solid wood floating frame in white, black, espresso or natural. Printed with pigment-based archival inks, rated to resist fading for decades indoors.

Questions about Abbott Thayer wall art

Will such pale colours print washed out?

No. Matte paper and pigment inks hold the low-contrast tones; these are among the prints that gain most from a larger size.

Which two hang best as a pair?

The Angel and the Winged Figure at matching sizes. The wall art size guide shows the spacing for a pair.