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About Anthony Thieme
Thieme, from Rotterdam, Holland, became one of Rockport, Massachusetts’ best known and most prolific painters. As a youth he attended a naval school and developed a love of boats. He studied art throughout Europe, including at the academy in The Hague. His travels took him as far as Brazil and Argentina. In 1929 he discovered Rockport and soon moved there. Only a year later he established the Thieme School of Art, which was in operation until 1943. At that time he had a summer home in Florida but he ended his life in suicide in 1954 in Greenwich, Connecticut. Kristian Davies (Artists of Cape Ann, 2001) surmises it may have been related to Thieme’s despair over the excessive horrors of the twentieth century. Most of his life was a happy one: he won numerous awards at the Salmagundi Club, the North Shore Arts Association, and the New Haven Paint and Clay Club. In addition, his works were constantly exhibited nationwide, and the following museums own his works: the Montclair Art Museum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Dayton Art Institute, and others. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has one of his many images of Motif No. 1.
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Paintings by Anthony Thieme
| Gloucester Harbor |
| Oil on canvas: 11 1/4 x 17 in. |
| signed: lower left |
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