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Pair of Earrings

Art Smith

Decorative Arts and Design

MEDIUM Brass and silver
DATES ca. 1960
DIMENSIONS 2 3/4 x 1 15/16 x 1/2 in. (7.0 x 4.9 x 1.3 cm)  (show scale)
MARKINGS On one earring only, stamped on reverse in script: "ART SMITH"
ACCESSION NUMBER 2010.26a-b
CREDIT LINE Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Pair of silver and brass earrings for pierced ears with flattened, bronze horizontal wing design. Ear shaped, thin, silver hook for pierced ear soldered to back of a vertical, flattened, bronze reversed 'b' shape curl, attached are three graduated, flattened, horizontal wings, each with a small soldered ring at top, ends of wings polished; the three wings are joined together vertically by two large thin circles attached to top of small and medium wing.
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
CAPTION Art Smith (American, born Cuba, 1917–1982). Pair of Earrings, ca. 1960. Brass and silver, 2 3/4 x 1 15/16 x 1/2 in. (7.0 x 4.9 x 1.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2010.26a-b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.2010.26a-b.jpg)
IMAGE overall, CUR.2010.26a-b.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2012
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Art Smith (American, born Cuba, 1917–1982). <em>Pair of Earrings</em>, ca. 1960. Brass and silver, 2 3/4 x 1 15/16 x 1/2 in. (7.0 x 4.9 x 1.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2010.26a-b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.2010.26a-b.jpg)