Robin Kranitzky
"Splitting Headache" Brooch #1484

"Splitting Headache" Brooch #1484

© Robin Kranitzky & Kim Overstreet

"Splitting Headache" Brooch #1484
"Splitting Headache" Brooch #1484
ArtistAmerican, born 1956
ArtistAmerican, born 1955
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • "Splitting Headache" Brooch #1484
Date1989
Made inRichmond, Virginia, United States
MediumSilver, nickel silver, copper, micarta, glass beads, postcard fragments, found objects, Mylar, and balsa
DimensionsOverall: 3 1/4 × 2 1/2 × 1 in. (8.3 × 6.4 × 2.5 cm)
Credit LineHelen Williams Drutt Collection, museum purchase funded by the Morgan Foundation in honor of Catherine Asher Morgan
Object number2002.3872
Non exposé

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Provenance[Ferrin Gallery, Cummington, Massachusetts]; acquired by Helen Williams Drutt English; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History"American Dreams, American Extremes," Museum Het Kruithuis, s'Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, 1990.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
"Robin Kranitzky...#1484..1989....Kim Overstreet" signed on back around edge in black ink.

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