Abbott Handerson Thayer (August 12, 1849 – May 29, 1921) was an American painter, naturalist, and teacher. As a painter of portraits, figures, animals...

politician Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921), American painter and naturalist Abbott Payson Usher (1883–1965), American economic historian Abbott M. Washburn...

classical form of countershading, discovered in 1909 by the artist Abbott Handerson Thayer, works by counterbalancing the effects of self-shadowing, again...

oil on canvas painting by Abbott Handerson Thayer. It depicts Bessie and Clara Stillman, and was commissioned from Thayer by their brother, the banker...

painting by the American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer, intended to commemorate the writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Though Thayer initiated several paintings...

artist Abbott Handerson Thayer described distractive markings in his 1909 book on camouflage, Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom. Thayer wrote...

Representative from Massachusetts Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921), American painter, amateur naturalist, and teacher Webster Thayer (1857–1933), the judge at the...

and snakes. Eye masks were first noticed by the American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer in 1909, and analysed extensively by the zoologist Hugh Cott in...

Kerr's subsequent letters achieved nothing. The American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer had developed a theory of camouflage based on countershading and...

Connecticut. She was the child of artists Catherine "Kate" Bloede Thayer and Abbott Handerson Thayer. Through her mother she was the granddaughter of Marie "Mary"...

other American artists have painted Mount Monadnock, among them Abbott Handerson Thayer, Rockwell Kent and Richard Whitney. The American composer Alan...

theory failed to gain widespread attention. The American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer tried to show, from his own imagination, the value of the eyespots...

and completion of his father Abbott Handerson Thayer's major work. The book, illustrated artistically by Abbott Thayer, sets out the controversial thesis...

the sea and on land. It is sometimes called Thayer's law, after the American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer, who published a paper on the form in 1896...

painter Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921) of the Thayer family, and the stepmother of painter Gerald Handerson Thayer (1883-1939). Thayer died in Peekskill...

Michael Thalbourne, Australian psychologist and parapsychologist. Abbott Handerson Thayer, American artist and painter. Debi Thomas, Olympic medalist, former...

Artists. Winslow Homer declined an invitation to join the group; Abbott Handerson Thayer accepted membership but withdrew before the group's first exhibition...

Ernest Renoux Carl Frederick von Saltza Julius LeBlanc Stewart Abbott Handerson Thayer Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin Douglas Volk J. Alden Weir William...

Hampshire Volunteers in the American Civil War. Her younger brother, Abbott Handerson Thayer became an artist and naturalist. After living in Boston, the family...

caterpillar larvae of the brimstone moth. The American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer, generally considered the originator of the theory of countershading...

a ship as seen against the distant sky on the horizon. Artist Abbott Handerson Thayer investigated countershading color schemes to "paint out" natural...

19th-century painting by James Collinson The Sisters (Thayer), an 1884 painting by Abbott Handerson Thayer The Sisters (1914 film), an American film starring...

naturally shadowed areas as countershading, following the ideas of Abbott Handerson Thayer from the First World War. To port, the ship was painted in "bright...

first described by the American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer, a pioneer in the theory of animal coloration. Thayer observed that whereas a painter takes...

They were the Englishman William Stott of Oldham and the American Abbott Handerson Thayer. Both men were to remain important figures in Dow's personal and...

high-contrast patterns that display their outlines. The artist Abbott Handerson Thayer in his 1909 book Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom argued...

captive bittern to discover how its "boom" was produced. The artist Abbott Handerson Thayer argued in Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom that animals...

Penfold (1849–1921), painter Jacob Riis (1849–1914), photographer Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921), painter Dwight William Tryon (1849–1925), painter...

include: Thayer family, a Boston Brahmin family and prominent American political family. Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921), American artist Adin Thayer (1816–1890)...

either from above or below." The artist Abbott Handerson Thayer formulated what is sometimes called Thayer's Law, the principle of countershading. However...