Frances Glessner Lee & the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death

Much has been made of the ghoulish predilections discernable in the Nutshells of Unexpected Death. These minutely detailed scale models depicting grisly death scenes are, to some, grotesque subversions of the innocent dollhouse. In one scene, a doll is strung from an attic laundry line, her shoe half off; in another, a female form is slumped half out of a bath, her skirt rucked up, her legs skewed unnaturally, a str...