Bruce Metcalf
Wood Brooch #109

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Artist Bruce MetcalfAmerican, born 1949

CultureAmerican

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Wood Brooch #109

Date1995

Medium23k gold leaf, paint, maple, copper, and brass

DimensionsOverall: 4 3/8 × 2 × 3/4 in. (11.1 × 5.1 × 1.9 cm)

Credit LineHelen Williams Drutt Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Foundation

Object number2002.3964

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"Bruce Metcalf," Helen Drutt: Philadelphia, December, 1995.

"New Times, New Thinking: Jewellery in Europe and America," Crafts Council Gallery, London, October, 1996; [tour].

"Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 30, 2007–January 27, 2008; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, March 14–July 6, 2008; Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, August 16, 2008–January 4, 2009; Tacoma Art Museum, Washington, June 27–September 13, 2009.

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

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

"'99 Metcalf" on back near clasp in red paint.

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