His greatest succeas, technically, Is
In tho manipulation of his lights. Ho
acquired this secret early and applied!
U to his Justly admired paintings of
roses. The bloom upon n "tea rose"
was his, and among tho groups of
flower paintings of those days Thayer's
works stood out like stars. To the
Angela he painted later ho lent tho
sumo soft Incandescent light, and it
was this light, as much as anything
that used to hush tho spectators'*
voices. The roses, it should be noted,
wore hothouse roses, and the bloom
from them which ho applied to his
augeiv cheeks had much that was
cloistral and fragile about It.
