Unknown Maker, American

The Last Dress

Maker

Unknown Maker, American

Culture

American

Title

The Last Dress

Year

ca.1940s

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

Image: 7.6 x 6.3 cm (3 x 2 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Written in ink on verso "Your wife the sun was in my eyes how do you like".

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Peter J. Cohen in honor of Luke Cohen, RISD BFA 1971, BArch 1972, Architecture

Object Number

2018.61.22

Type

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 14: Shadows

The RISD Museum’s fourteenth issue of Manual shines a light on the shadow, centering the black body as a site of possibility, liberatory self-awareness, radical non-conformity, and joyful defiance. This issue serves as a companion to the exhibition Defying the Shadow.

Manual 14: Shadows opens with an excerpt on the shadow from W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, followed by an introduction by Dr. Anita N. Bateman, who elucidates: “Operating in the shadow comes with a legacy of resistance, both in spiritual and ideological forms.”

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 12: On Further Review

The RISD Museum’s twelfth issue of Manual focuses on uncovering narratives that were once central to objects’ histories but now have been systematically obscured, inadvertently overlooked, or otherwise lost.

Articles

Butterfly Hymnals That Won’t Disturb the Pleasant

Exhibition History

Defying the Shadow
Dec 01, 2020 – Dec 18, 2021

Image use

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Tombstone

Unknown Maker, American
The Last Dress, ca.1940s
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7.6 x 6.3 cm (3 x 2 1/2 inches)
Gift of Peter J. Cohen in honor of Luke Cohen, RISD BFA 1971, BArch 1972, Architecture 2018.61.22

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