Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection Stuart Card Rochester’s house

Rochester’s house

His ultimate faith in the restorative power of literature resonates on every page of this infinitely rewarding and important book

Tiddler tells the tallest tales in the ocean

But as he prepares his estate

historical complexity

Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection Stuart Card Rochester’s houseEvocative and often highly erotic works on paper by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso are presented along with new details about Scofield Thayer (18891982), the unusual and complicated man who collected them. Thayer was a wealthy publisher, poet, and aesthete who led an intense public life that included the editorship of the prominent literary journal The Dial and friendships with literary luminaries such as e. e. cummings. In the 1920s,