Tag Archives: Henry David Thoreau

Of pine and man: Reflecting on Henry David Thoreau’s sentiment in “Chesuncook”

March 4, 2017

James Mathew Robert Pavlik Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States   From the book Hungary by Adrian and Marianne Stokes It is the living spirit of the tree, not its spirit of turpentine, with which I sympathize, and which heals my cuts. It is as immortal as I am, and perchance will go to as high a […]

Abbott Handerson Thayer’s art and fin de siècle American culture

January 23, 2017

Gregory Rutecki Cleveland, Ohio, United States   Fig. 1: Self Portrait, 1898 Abbott Handerson Thayer Snite Museum of Art, United States Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921) straddled the fin de siècle, and with his brush preserved an American counterculture for posterity. His variegated oeuvre reflects substantive reflections of his period’s medical and religious culture, as well […]