Title: Securing the shadow
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.
Subjects: Death in art, Exhibitions, Sepulchral monuments, American Portrait painting, Themes, motives, Portrait photography, Funeral rites and ceremonies in art, Death, History, Social aspects
Places: United States
Time periods: 18th century, 19th century