Painted Brass and Silver Figural Brooch, Bruce Metcalf

Circa 1995, the green painted brass leaf cradling a silver figure, completed with locking pin stem, signed and dated.

4.5 in.

1.745 troy oz.

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

Accompanied by copy of article from American Craft dated October/November 1990, a copy of article from Metalsmith dated Winter 1990, and a copy of Bruce Metcalf's Curriculum Vitae from Susan Cummins Gallery.

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.

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