Title: Securing the shadow : posthumous portraiture in America /
Authors: Hollander, Stacy C.,; Laderman, Gary, 1962-; Radice, Anne-Imelda,; American Folk Art Museum,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Death in art Exhibitions.; Death in art Exhibitions.; Sepulchral monuments United States Exhibitions.; Portrait painting, American Themes, motives Exhibitions.; Portrait photography United States Themes, motives Exhibitions.; Funeral rites and ceremonies in art Exhibitions.; Death Social aspects United States History Exhibitions.; Death Social aspects United States History Exhibitions.
Abstract: "[This book] is the first museum exhibition dedicated to an examination of American self-taught portraiture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the lends of memory and loss."--Front inside flap.
Contents: Securing the shadow : posthumous portraiture in America / Stacy C. Hollander -- Death in early America / Gary Laderman -- Catalog. Gravestones ; Shades and shadows ; Posthumous portraits ; Postmortem daguerreotypes : the Burns family collection -- Exhibition checklist.