Bruce Metcalf
"Wood Pin #3" Brooch

"Wood Pin #3" Brooch

© Bruce Metcalf

"Wood Pin #3" Brooch
"Wood Pin #3" Brooch
ArtistAmerican, born 1949
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • "Wood Pin #3" Brooch
Date1987
Medium23k gold leaf, oak, and maple
DimensionsOverall: 5 × 2 × 1 in. (12.7 × 5.1 × 2.5 cm)
Credit LineHelen Williams Drutt Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Foundation
Object number2002.3962
Non exposé

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ProvenanceThe artist; acquired by Helen Williams Drutt English; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History"American Figurative Jewelry," VO Gallery, Washington, January, 1987.

"New Faces," Artwear, New York, June, 1987.

"Helen Drutt Gallery: Fifteen Years 1974-1989," Helen Drutt Gallery, New York and Philadelphia, January 28–February 25, 1989.

"Korun Kieli (The Language of Jewelry), 1964-1992," Röhsska Konstslöjdmuseet, Gothenberg, Sweden, November 28, 1992–January 10, 1993; Taideteollisuusmuseo, Helsinki, March 12–April 12, 1995.

"Contemporary Jewelry: 1964-1993, Selected Works, Helen Williams Drutt Collection," Arkansas Art Center Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, October 8–November 21, 1993.

"The Abstract Impulse: Selections from the Modern and Contemporary Collections," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 3–May 5, 2013.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
"Bruce Metcalf" stamped on back near clasp.

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Wood Neckpiece #7
Bruce Metcalf
1992
Maple, cherry, oak, walnut, pine, rosewood, cork, glass eye, plastic teeth, tagua nut, brass, cord, 23k gold leaf, and paint
2002.3963
Wood Brooch #109
Bruce Metcalf
1995
23k gold leaf, paint, maple, copper, and brass
2002.3964
"Figure Pin #132" Brooch
Bruce Metcalf
1996
23k gold leaf, paint, maple, brass, copper, Micarta, and steel
2002.3965.A,.B
"Wood Pin #7" Brooch
Bruce Metcalf
1987
23k gold leaf, maple, and padouk
2002.3961
"Burning Building"  Brooch
Carlier Makigawa
1989
Stainless steel, papier-mâché, lacquer, graphite, 23k gold leaf, and silver
2002.3938
"Hollow Man in a Nasty Situation" Brooch
Bruce Metcalf
1988
Sterling silver, paint, and firebrick
2002.3966
"Missing the Point" Pin
Bruce Metcalf
1979
Sterling silver, brass, paint, and Plexiglas
2002.3958
"Missing the Point" Pin
Bruce Metcalf
1979
Sterling silver, brass, paint, and Plexiglas
2002.3957
"Bright Figure over a Low Bad Land" Brooch and Stand
Bruce Metcalf
1978
Brass, silver, copper, Plexiglas, acetate, and paint
2002.3956.A,.B
"Protected X" Pin and Stand
Bruce Metcalf
1980
Brooch: Plexiglas, brass, copper wire, and papyrus reeds Stand: wood and brass
2002.3959.A,.B
"Bagman" Brooch
Bruce Metcalf
1987
Sterling silver, Plexiglas, Prismacolor pencil, and Mylar
2002.3960
Brooch with Stand
Bruce Metcalf
1977
Silver, Plexiglas, brass, pen and ink, paint, and commercial chain
2002.3955.A,.B