Portrait of Horace Fuller by Polly Thayer

oil painting

PAINTINGS - OIL
marad; paintings
Thayer, Polly
1942
painting
Overall: 43 1/2 x 47 1/2 x 3 in.

Oil painting on canvas; seated portrait of Horace Fuller wearing US Marine uniform; signed lower right in red "Polly Thayer '42"; painted by Polly Thayer (Starr) whose husband, Donald C. Starr, was a yachtsman and friend of Fuller (who was uncle of Seaport curator Benjamin A. G. Fuller); painted while Horace Fuller was at Chelsea Naval Hospital recuperating from wounds received at Guadalcanal, World War II.

1994.48.1