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Indepth Arts News:
"Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures from the Yale University
Art Gallery"
2001-04-28 until 2001-07-31
Addison Gallery of American Art
Andover, MA,
USA
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.
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