This volume reproduces and discusses some 100 American portrait and mourning miniatures. Robin Jaffee Frank examines the miniatures in detail, offering insights into their role in American art and social history. She uncovers the stories of those who sat for them, and those who treasured them.
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This volume reproduces and discusses some 100 American portrait and mourning miniatures. Robin Jaffee Frank examines the miniatures in detail, offering insights into their role in American art and social history. She uncovers the stories of those who sat for them, and those who treasured them.
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New. 0894670868. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY-AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY, WHY WAIT? --358 pp., 146 color illus. Catalogue for the exhibition, organized by Robin Jaffee Frank, presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (October 3-December 30, 2000); Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina (February 10-April 8, 2001); Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachussets (April 27-July 31, 2001), with essay by Frank. -A poignant investigation into American private life between 1760 and 1840, this exhibition gathered together more than a hundred portrait miniatures, painted by such renowned figures as Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, and Charles Willson Peale. Frank employs these exquisite artifacts as clues to the love and life stories of their owners. Rediscovering the identities of artists and sitters, she writes, and understanding the personal associations that miniatures commemorate, returns to them their power to move us--with a bonus offer--
