I experience elegiac emotions while falling into this picture as I view it—as the designer no doubt intended.
Category Archives: American funerary portraits
Her Courageous Spirit Lives On
A masterpiece by Oronzio Maldarelli in Spring Forest Cemetery.
Villard monument
To borrow the Guide Michelin’s phrase, “vaut le voyage.”
Still on guard
Outstanding and informative private monuments erected for two Union Civil War veterans.
Hartranft obelisk
An attractive setting to photograph, with a dismaying surprise.
The light of Lister
The 1898 Lister monument in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery caught during a thunderstorm.
Schäflein
A Moravian hymn graces the monument of little Luther Campbell in Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
Ray Albert Bolen
An old photograph patinated by a century of wear.
The Thin Blue Line
A widow attempts to make sense of her life on her husband’s monument.
Good ol’ boy
A man of passions was the sadly short-lived Jimmy Good of Luray, VA.
