Author: Kirstein, Lincoln and Jerry L. Thompson
Title: Memorial to a Marriage: An Album on the Saint-Gaudens Memorial in Rock Creek Cemetery Commissioned by Henry Adams in Honor of His Wife, Marian Hooper Adams
Description: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989. Hardbound. Navy blue cloth with gold lettering; grey dj with color illustration and black lettering; 91 pp. with several bw and color illustrations. With photographs by Jerry L. Thompson and an extensive essay about the hooded, bronze figure by Saint-Gaudens that commorates the memory of "Clover" Adams, who died by her own hand, after which her husband fled to Japan, whose holy places influenced the concept of the memorial masterpiece. VG/VG .

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