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Tuesday, 17 June 2014 11:30

Modernist Jewelry Goes on View at Dallas Museum of Art

Art Smith's 'Ellington Necklace,' circa 1962. Silver, turquoise, amethyst, prase, rhodonite. Art Smith's 'Ellington Necklace,' circa 1962. Silver, turquoise, amethyst, prase, rhodonite. Brooklyn Museum

From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith features 26 pieces including silver and gold jewelry created by African American artist, Art Smith, as well as select pieces by his contemporaries. Inspired by surrealism, biomorphism, and primitivism, Smith was one of the leading modernist jewelers of the mid-twentieth century. His work is dynamic in both size and form.

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