“Mr. Thieme’s canvases are simple and melodic, with no dissonance, and so far removed from surrealism that they are the sort of thing that you and I might choose to hang above the fireplace in the library. And we probably would leave them there, too, for there is nothing topical or ephemeral about a New England landscape, or a fishing village, or a shore.”^[1]

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Thieme was a member of numerous visual arts organizations, including the Boston Art Club, the Gloucester Society of Artists, and the North Shore Arts Association, and exhibited paintings regularly, winning many prizes and medals. His extensive travels during his career also brought him to the southern United States, the West Coast, and to the Caribbean Islands, sites where he employed a more vivid palette. Many museums hold his work in their permanent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Provenance:

From the artist

To private collection, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1920s

By descent to private collection, Milton, Massachusetts, circa early 1960s

Inherited by spouse, private collection, Milton, Massachusetts, 1968

Private estate of the above, 2009

With Vose Galleries, Boston, inventory no. 35342, March 2009

To private collection, Irvington, Virginia, October 2009 to present

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