Robin Jaffee Frank
Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
1999.
362 pp.; 100 color ills.; 50 b/w ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(0300087241)
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Significant collections of American miniatures are owned by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, the Yale University Art Museum in New Haven, CT, and the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC. While some of these institutions have produced catalogues, relatively few publications exist that discuss the portrait and mourning miniatures in their own and others’...