Securing the shadow
Subtitle: posthumous portraiture in America
By: Stacy C. Hollander ; essay by Gary Laderman ; foreword by Anne-Imdelda Radice
Contributors: Laderman, Gary, 1962- author; Radice, Anne-Imelda, author of foreword; American Folk Art Museum
Publisher: American Folk Art Museum
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780912161327
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Death in art; Exhibitions; Sepulchral monuments; American Portrait painting; Themes, motives; Portrait photography; Funeral rites and ceremonies in art; Death; History
Other titles: Posthumous portraiture in America
Description: "[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.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition presented October 6, 2016-February 26, 2017 at the American Folk Art Museum, New York.

Includes bibliographical references.

Exhibition, 'Securing the Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture in America' : October 6, 2016-February 26, 2017, American Folk Art Museum, New York, New York.

Text in English.
Table of contents: title: Securing the shadow : posthumous portraiture in America / Stacy C. Hollander; title: Death in early America / Gary Laderman; title: Catalog. Gravestones ; Shades and shadows ; Posthumous portraits ; Postmortem daguerreotypes : the Burns family collection; title: Exhibition checklist.