Calder Jewelry features more than 450 bracelets, brooches, necklaces, and rings, photographed in still life by Maria Robledo. Also included are Calder's inventory drawings, boxes he made to transport and store the jewelry, historic photographs of his exhibitions and of jewelry worn by notable collectors and artists, and an extensive chronology. Essays discuss the relationship of these objects to the artist's other endeavors and in relation to the history of adornment.
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Alexander S. C. Rower is Director of the Calder Foundation and grandson of the artist. Mark Rosenthal is Adjunct Curator, Contemporary Art, Norton Museum of Art. Jane Adlin is Associate Curator, Department of 19th-Century Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Renown still life and portrait photographer, Maria Robledo is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and Town & Country.
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Rower, Alexander S. C. and Holton Rower (editors). CALDER JEWELRY. Contibutions by Mark Rosenthal and Jane Adlin, photos by Maria Robledo; 288 pp., 197 color and 59 b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth. New York, Calder Foundation in association with West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, and New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2007. In addition to his well known sculptures and mobiles, Calder also created smaller pieces in the form of jewelry: brooches, bracelets, necklaces, and rings. This book contains new photographs of the jewelry as well as drawings, pictures of artists and collectors wearing his pieces, and a chronology. Exhibition in West Palm Beach, Philadelphia, New York and Dublin. Light wear to dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 124046
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 102079