Bruce Metcalf
"Wood Pin #3" Brooch

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Artist Bruce MetcalfAmerican, 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

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; 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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