Memorial to a Marriage

Title: Memorial to a Marriage
Rights: copyright Patricia Cronin
Type: StillImage
Creator: Cronin, Patricia, 1963-
Date: November 3, 2002
Description: Memorial To A Marriage (2002) is the first and only Marriage Equality monument in the world. Cronin created a three-ton Carrara marble, mortuary sculpture of herself and (now) wife, artist Deborah Kass, recumbent in an entwined embrace on a bed, when same sex marriage was illegal in the United States. Memorial To A Marriage (2002) has been exhibited in over 50 exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, and Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, New Orleans, among others.; Description Source
Format: image/jpeg
700 × 525 pixels
Language: English
Place: Bronx, New York
Woodlawn Cemetery
Extent: 642 KB
Identifier: MTAM_Marble_Woodlawn_Back
Relation: Patricia Cronin Art; Patricia Cronin Art
Subject: public art
monuments
Lesbian art
Marriage
Same-sex marriage
Sapphics
Women
Temporal Coverage: 2002
Source: Patricia Cronin Memorial to a Marriage; Patricia Cronin Memorial to a Marriage