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Hebe
Abbott Handerson Thayer (American, 1849–1921)
c. 1890
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 117 x 75 cm (46 1/16 x 29 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- United States
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King Collection, in memory of William Macbeth
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Albert Handerson Thayer often kept his paintings in his studio, sporadically revising them over extended periods of time. A number of his compositions appear to be only partially completed, as is the case with Hebe. When asked about this painting, the artist replied, "Like most artists, I suppose, I allow a good many of my picture-undertakings to get sidetracked before they are done, with the result, off and on, that they get sold unfinished to some one who values enough what there already is in them."
