Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Yale University. Art Gallery, host institution.
Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, S.C.), host institution.
Addison Gallery of American Art, host institution.
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| ISBN: | 9780300250978
0300250975
9780894670862
0300087241
9780300087246
0894670867
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| Notes: | Catalog of an exhibition held at: Yale University Art Gallery, October 3-December 30, 2000 ; Gibbes Museum of Art, February 10-April 8, 2001 ; Addison Gallery of American Art, April 27-July 31, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on August 19, 2019).
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| Summary: | "Portrait miniatures, small enough to fit in the palm of the hand, are unique among works of art for their highly personal associations. At the height of their American popularity, from 1760 to about 1840, these cherished portraits were frequently commissioned as a way to hold on to absent loved ones. This ... illustrated book reproduces and discusses some one hundred portrait and mourning miniatures. Robin Jaffee Frank examines the miniatures in detail, offering new insights into their role in American art and social history. Through painstaking detective work, she uncovers the stories of the people who sat for them and the people who treasured them, restoring to these intimate tokens their power to move us. Portrait miniatures were most often painted in watercolor on thin disks of ivory. They were sometimes worn as jewelry, sometimes framed to be viewed privately. Many were painted by specialists, although renowned easel artists ... also created them to commemorate births, engagements, marriages, deaths, and other joinings or separations"--Publisher's description.
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| Other form: | Print version: Frank, Robin Jaffee. Love and loss. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Art Gallery, 2000 9780894670862
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