Artist
Bruce Metcalf (American, born 1949)American, 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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Department
Decorative Arts, Craft, and DesignSpecial Collections
Object Type
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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Bruce Metcalf
1996
23k gold leaf, paint, maple, brass, copper, Micarta, and steel
2002.3965.A,.B
Bruce Metcalf
1978
Brass, silver, copper, Plexiglas, acetate, and paint
2002.3956.A,.B
Bruce Metcalf
1977
Silver, Plexiglas, brass, pen and ink, paint, and commercial chain
2002.3955.A,.B
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
Bruce Metcalf
1975
Commercial white metal castings, Plexiglas, silver, and stainless steel
2002.3953
