Welcome to Graceful Graveyards
This page is about the art of funerary sculpture. Some of the most emotionally moving and beautiful sculpture I have ever seen were created by nameless artists to commemorate the lives of people we have never heard of. To me the most touching are the graves of deeply loved spouses or children... the look of pain and anguish in some of the faces make you feel their loss keenly. I hope to bring a little light to this often ignored art through my photographs and articles.

I first became interested in the subject back in the mid-90's when I happened upon David Robinson's book Beautiful Death. After reading it, I started really looking at the headstones as we would pass cemeteries in the car, then I started going to them specifically to look at the sculpture. I have spent hours walking around old graveyards reading the headstones and photographing them. I not only find them fascinating and beautiful, but I also see that they can be a great resource to help geneaologists piece together their family histories. This has lead to another hobby - being a volunteer contributor to Find-A-Grave.