| Thayer, Scofield, 1889- | |||||||||||||
| type | Collector | ||||||||||||
| dates | 1889-1982 | ||||||||||||
| city | New York City | ||||||||||||
| state | NY | ||||||||||||
| other cities | Worcester, MA; Edgartown, MA; Chicago, IL; Vienna, Austria; Hamilton, Bermuda; Miami, FL; | ||||||||||||
| sex | M | ||||||||||||
| history |
Scofield Thayer (1889-1982) graduated from Harvard in 1913 and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. With J. Sibley Watson, he purchased Dial Magazine in 1919, and served as its editor until 1925, publishing works by many leading Modernists. During this time, Thayer also built his collection of modern art and oversaw the publication of the portfolio Living Art. He suffered a severe breakdown in 1925, from which he never recovered, and died in May 1982. He married Elaine Orr in 1916; they divorced in 1921. (Dial/Scofiled Thayer Papers, 1879-1982) Thayer purchased modern art by Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Schiele, Munch, Derain, Demuth, and Klimt, some of which appeared as illustrations in his magazine. |
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| decades | 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 |
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| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:18 | ||||||||||||
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