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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 48 (2013)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 48

"Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln): A Bronze Statuette by Augustus Saint-Gaudens": The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 48 (2013)

Tolles, Thayer
2013
16 pages
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Thayer Tolles

Thayer Tolles joined the American Wing staff in 1992. A sculpture specialist, she served as editor and co-author of a two-volume catalogue of the Museum’s historic American sculpture collection (1999, 2001); participated in the department’s renovation and reinstallation between 2001 and 2012; and organized numerous exhibitions with accompanying catalogues, including Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2009) and The American West in Bronze, 1850–1925 (2013). A graduate of Williams College, she received her MA from the University of Delaware and her PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Selected publications

Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln), Augustus Saint-Gaudens  American, Bronze, American
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1884–87; reduced 1910; cast 1911