INSECTS – Colored beetles, landscape, study folder for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, INSECTS--Colored beetles, landscape, study folder for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom, n.d., various media and collage on paperboard, closed: approx. 12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the heirs of Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1950.2.55
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Artwork Details

Title
INSECTS – Colored beetles, landscape, study folder for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom
Artist
Date
n.d.
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
closed: approx. 12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the heirs of Abbott Handerson Thayer
Mediums Description
various media and collage on paperboard
Classifications
Subjects
  • Study
  • Animal — insect — beetle
Object Number
1950.2.55
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1950.2.55

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James McNeill Whistler, Valparaiso Harbor, 1866, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly, 1929.6.159
Valparaiso Harbor
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Date1866
oil on canvas
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James McNeill Whistler, Untitled, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Aline Fruhauf, 1978.118
Untitled
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C. A. Knight, J. Young, James McNeill Whistler, Anacapa Island in Santa Barbara Channel, 1854, engraving, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1979.92
Anacapa Island in Santa Barbara Channel
Artist
Date1854
engraving
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Henry Wolf, James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Carlyle, 1904, wood engraving on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1973.130.211
Thomas Carlyle
Artist
Date1904
wood engraving on paper
Not on view

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