The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection, a hardback companion book of the upcoming exhibition with the same name, is now available for pre-order with a special rate on the Museum Store's website. This offer is limited; click here to place your order now!

Similiar to the exhibition, the book explores the fascinating subject of 'lover's eyes', hand-painted miniatures of single human eyes, set in exquisite jewelery and given as tokens of affection. The Birmingham Museum of Art's own, Curator of American Art, Dr. Graham C. Boettcher, serves as the publication's editor, with contributions from Elle Shushan and Jo Manning. 

Graham C. Boettcher is the William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art, where he oversees the collections of American fine and decorative art before 1945. Elle Shushan is among the world's foremost dealers in American and European portrait miniatures, and works with many of the leading private and public collections of miniatures. Jo Manning is a romance novelist and the author of 'My Lady Scandalous' (Simon & Schuster, 2005), a biographical account of the royal courtesan Grace Dalrymple Elliot.