Gladys Thayer

Gladys Thayer was born in 1886 in South Woodstock, Connecticut.^[1] She was the child of artists Catherine "Kate" Bloede Thayer and Abbott Handerson Thayer. Through her mother she was the granddaughter of Marie "Mary" Bloede (born Marie Antoinette Franziska Jungnitz, pen name Marie Westland) and niece of Gertrude Bloede (pen name Stuart Sterne).

Thayer was a frequent model in her father's paintings, including My Children (Mary, Gerald, and Gladys Thayer) (circa 1897)---alongside her older sister Mary, and her older brother Gerald---and in the "Winged Figure" series (1904–11).^[2]

She was married to artist David Reasoner. She had four children with Reasoner.

Her father taught her how to paint. She painted flowers and portraiture. She died in 1945 in Washington, D.C.

• "Hooded Warblers, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom" - ca. 1900 – 1909, watercolor on paper, stencil, and oil on wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum^[3]