The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer Quotes

“One wonders, considering his antipathy to America, his disdain for Worcester, and the revulsion he felt for his memories of growing up there, why he would choose this small, inward-looking city as a final resting place.”
― James Dempsey, The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer

“Judge Francis W. Conlin ruled that the works in the Thayer collection need not be continuously displayed on museum walls as long as they are accessible to the public upon request.”
― James Dempsey, The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer

“Indeed, to Thayer, Worcester displayed the same graceless greed and servility to the social order he despised in his own Worcester relatives”
― James Dempsey, The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer

“Thayer died on July 9, 1982, in Long Hill Cottage, Planting Field Way, Edgartown. He”
― James Dempsey, The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer

“was reminded by the speed with which he made his diagnosis of my case of your criticism to me of his apparently almost too immediately certain diagnoses of certain cases instanced by him in his most recent book.”
― James Dempsey, The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer

“Farrar obviously detected that Thayer had picked up that disdain for the philistine and the bourgeois that was not uncommon among some elements in the modernist and the avant-garde movement.”
― James Dempsey, The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer

“All in all, the two articles, one in a provincial newspaper, the other in an international highbrow magazine, comprise a classic exchange between the modernist and conventional views of art.”
― James Dempsey, The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer

“busy, hardworking mill city that had afforded his family its great wealth,”
― James Dempsey, The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer

“Johansen may have felt safe in criticizing this influential journal and its often modernist contents in the pages of a small provincial newspaper that was unlikely to be read by the sophisticates of New York. But, unfortunately for him, Worcester was Scofield Thayer’s hometown,”
― James Dempsey, The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer