30/4/2001
Love and Loss
Addison Gallery, Andover
This major exhibition from the Yale University Art Gallery, organized by Robin Jaffee Frank, examines the intimate and rich role of miniatures in America through 100 exceptional works of art, including several on loan from the Gibbes permanent collection.
American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures from the
Yale University Art Gallery
This major exhibition from the Yale University Art Gallery, organized
by Robin Jaffee Frank, examines the intimate and rich role of
miniatures in America through 100 exceptional works of art, including
several on loan from the Gibbes permanent collection. The artists
included read like a Who’s Who of American miniature painting from
around 1760 to 1830. The exhibition is unusual in that it includes
artists’ tools, microscopes and magnifying glasses that illuminate
the complex processes used to create them.
Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, the miniature stands
apart from any other art form because of its highly personal content.
Revealing people’s private selves and secrets, these treasures portray
loved ones and were commissioned on the occasions of births,
engagements, marriages, deaths, and other personal events. These
tiny objects are weighted with meaning, illustrating how art
represented joy or bereavement in the mid-eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries.
Addison Gallery of American Art
Andover, MA, USA