Bruce Metcalf
"Hollow Man in a Nasty Situation" Brooch

"Hollow Man in a Nasty Situation" Brooch

© Bruce Metcalf

"Hollow Man in a Nasty Situation" Brooch
"Hollow Man in a Nasty Situation" Brooch
ArtistAmerican, born 1949
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • "Hollow Man in a Nasty Situation" Brooch
Date1988
MediumSterling silver, paint, and firebrick
DimensionsOverall: 1 × 3 in. (2.5 × 7.6 cm)
Credit LineHelen Williams Drutt Collection, museum purchase funded by the estate of Jack T. McCann
Object number2002.3966
Not on view

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ProvenanceThe artist; acquired by Helen Williams Drutt English; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition HistoryWita Gardiner Gallery, Los Angeles, April, 1988.

"Jewelry: Means: Meaning," Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1989; Hunter Museum of Art, Chatanooga, Tennessee, 1990; National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee, 1990; McKissick Museum, Columbia, South Carolina, 1990; B. Carroll Reece Memorial Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnsontown Center, Tennessee 1990; Priebe Gallery, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1990; American Craft Museum, New York, 1990.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
"METCALF 88" stamped on back on clasp.

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