Artist
Betsy King(American, born 1953)American, born 1953
CultureAmerican
Titles
- "Caught in a Trap" Brooch
Date1990
MediumSterling silver, Plexiglas, brass, plastic, and photograph
DimensionsOverall: 3 3/8 × 3 3/4 × 1/2 in. (8.6 × 9.5 × 1.3 cm)
Credit LineHelen Williams Drutt Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Foundation
Object number2002.3849
Non exposé
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Department
Decorative Arts, Craft, and DesignSpecial Collections
Object Type
Exhibition History"Schmuckszene '90," Munich, March, 1990.
"American Dreams, American Extremes," Museum Het Kruithuis, s'Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, April 28–June 17, 1990
"Brilliant Stories: American Narrative Jewelry" The Charles and Emma Frye Museum of Art, Seattle, April 22–May 21, 1994; California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, June 4–July 24, 1994; Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, September 24–November 4, 1994; Tyler Gallery, State Universuty of New York, Oswego, New York, November 18–December 14, 1994; Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, Kentucky, February 5–March 19, 1995.
"The Passionate Adventure of the Real: Collage, Assemblage, and the Object in 20th Century Art," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 18, 2003–February 8, 2004.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
"BK 90" etched on back near clasp.
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