A Life Shaped by Light and Lineage Born in South Woodstock, Connecticut, in 1886, Gladys Thayer entered a world where the boundaries between family and art were virtually nonexistent. As the daughter of Abbott Handerson Thayer and Catherine Bloede Thayer, her earliest education took place not within the walls of a formal school, but under the watchful eye of her father in his studio. This unconventional upbringing, characterized by hom…