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Art of the People: Folk Art in Maine

Mourning and Place

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Brewster Family memorial, ca. 1805

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The overall design of this painting on silk is common of mourning pieces from the early 1800s.

Urns and weeping willows served as symbolic markers for the loss of a loved one.

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