Death Mask
Item
“Death Mask”. n.d. Series IX. Realia, James Merrill: Life and Archive, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-life-and-archive/item/38721
- Title
- Death Mask
- 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).
- Subject
- Merrill, James, 1926-1995
- Source
- James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 304
- Relation
- Series IX. Realia
- Exhibit Cases 9-10: Love and Death
- James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 795
- Type
- Sculpture
- Format
- Sculpture
- 1 jpeg. 600 ppi.
- Identifier
- MSS083-IX-Death-Mask.jpeg
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Site pages
- Love and Death - Realia
“Death Mask”. n.d. Series IX. Realia, James Merrill: Life and Archive, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-life-and-archive/item/38721