Silver, Copper, and Plastic Urban Crisis Brooch, Bruce Metcalf

Lot Details & Additional Photographs

Circa 1993, the brooch in the form of a plastic building on fire with a silver figure at the top, completed with a locking pin stem, signed and dated.

4 3/8 in.

1.580 troy oz.

From the Collection of Francine Pilloff, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Accompanied by receipt from Susan Cummins Gallery dated October 8, 1993.

Bruce Metcalf (born 1949, Amherst, Massachusetts) is a studio jeweler and writer with a B.F.A. from Syracuse University (1972) and an M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, Temple University (1977). He taught at Colorado State, Massachusetts College of Art, Kent State (1981–91), Tyler (1992), and The University of the Arts in Philadelphia (Senior Lecturer, 1994–95, 1997, 1999, 2007, 2010–16), and served as a Contributing Editor to Metalsmith (1980–92, 1995–2001). His honors include a Fulbright to Seoul (1990), NEA Visual Artists Fellowship (1992), Pew Fellowship (1996), James Renwick Alliance Master of the Medium (2013), and American Craft Council Fellow (2014); he has held 40 solo and 400+ group exhibitions, is represented in major public collections (e.g., Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cooper Hewitt, MAD, Renwick, V&A, Pinakothek der Moderne), and co‑authored Makers: A History of American Studio Craft (UNC Press, 2010)

Good estate condition.