The Suicide Of Clover Adams - 1 T-Shirt

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This heavily cloaked person is moments from death. She just drank potassium cyanide and her eyes have closed and soon her arm will drop and she will slump over and be dead. This famous sculpture is at the grave of Clover Adams, a prominent member of high society in Washington, DC who committed suicide in 1885.

Clover was married to American writer Henry Adams. Their home was across the street from the White House on Lafayette Square and their door was open to everyone, whether they were politicians such as senators and congressmen, or artists and intellectuals of meager means. Clover was an artist in her own right; she was a photographer in the early days of the profession, and is generally regarded as the first successful female photographer.

Clover Adams was known for her hospitable and gregarious nature. She was nice to everyone, and her wit and clever mind provided great entertainment at social gatherings. She was also a fierce intellectual who had studied in Camb...

I enjoy photography and writing, and sometimes think of myself as a photojournalist. If there is a story to be told with a photograph, I tell it. As a longtime resident of Washington, DC, a lot of my photographs are of this area, and I enjoy writing in the description something about the shot -- it could be a short statement about an equestrian statue in the middle of a park, or a more intimate tale of the mausoleum where Abraham Lincoln's son, Willie, was entombed for the remaining three years of Lincoln's presidency after the boy's death. These photographs are contained in the aptly named "Washington DC" Collection. In addition to "WDC" there are eight other Collections on this page, and two of my favorites are "Paintings" and...