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Death Mask

Dublin Core

Title

Death Mask

Subject

Merrill, James, 1926-1995

Description

The bronzed death mask was Peter Hooten's idea, "but the juvenile author of "Death Masks"...would have appreciated it" (see Merrill's poem "Death Masks" in Love and Money, Publications).

Source

James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 304

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Relation

Series IX. Realia

Exhibit Cases 9-10: Love and Death

James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 795

Format

Sculpture

1 jpeg. 600 ppi.

Type

Sculpture

Identifier

MSS083-IX-Death-Mask.jpeg

Citation

“Death Mask ,” WUSTL Digital Gateway Image Collections & Exhibitions, accessed April 28, 2024, http://lib-lslv126.wulib.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/12742.