A time to mourn
Subtitle: expressions of grief in nineteenth century America
By: Martha V. Pike and Janice Gray Armstrong.
Contributors: Armstrong, Janice Gray, joint author.; Museums at Stony Brook.
Publisher: Museums at Stony Brook
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Stony Brook, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Art, American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.; Grief in art -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: A Time to Mourn explores in words and pictures the development and decline of urban American mourning customs during the nineteenth century. The seven essays in this book treat nineteenth-century mourning as a subject of social history. The surviving tangible expressions of grief, the graveyards, silk and wool embroideries, jewelry, paintings and fashionable mourning costumes are depicted through the abundantly illustrated essays and an extensive catalog of mourning relics.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 190.
Exhibition held May 24-Nov. 16, 1980 at Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, N.Y.
Includes index.