Betsy King
"Caught in a Trap" Brooch

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Artist Betsy KingAmerican, 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

Not on view

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Department

Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Special Collections

Helen Williams Drutt Collection of Contemporary Studio Jewelry

Object Type

JEWELRY & ADORNMENT

ProvenanceThe artist; acquired by Helen Williams Drutt English, 1994; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
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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