Jamie Bennett
"Totem" Brooch

"Totem" Brooch

© Jamie Bennett

"Totem" Brooch
"Totem" Brooch
ArtistAmerican, born 1948
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • "Totem" Brooch
  • from the series Coloratura
Date1985
MediumEnamel, copper, and silver
DimensionsOverall: 4 3/8 × 1 3/16 × 3/4 in. (11.1 × 3 × 1.9 cm)
Credit LineHelen Williams Drutt Collection, gift of Helen Williams Drutt English
Object number2003.917
Non exposé

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ProvenanceThe artist; acquired by Helen Williams Drutt English; given to MFAH, 2003.
Exhibition History"Jamie Bennett," Helen Drutt: Philadelphia, January 26–February 23, 1985.

"Edge of the Sublime: The Jewelry and Paintings of Jamie Bennett," Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, January 19–May 4, 2008; National Ornamental Museum, Memphis, Tennessee, June 22–August 24, 2008; Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York, September 27–November 19, 2008; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, December 19, 2008–February 15, 2009; Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin, March 22–September 6, 2009; Bellevue Art Museum, Washington, March–June 2010.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
"J Bennett / 85" scratched on back near clasp

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