Harold B. Nelson

Bernard N. Jazzar and Harold B. “Hal” Nelson are authorities on the history of enameling in America in the twentieth century. In 2007 they founded the nonprofit Enamel Arts Foundation to support and promote the modern and contemporary enamels field.

Jazzar is curator for the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Collection in Los Angeles and, until his retirement in 2017, Nelson was curator of American Decorative Arts at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.

In 2006 they co-authored Painting with Fire: Masters of Enameling in America, 1930–1980; in 2015 they co-authored Little Dreams in Glass and Metal: Enameling in America, 1920 to the Present; and in 2017 they co-curated June Schwarcz: Invention and Variation for the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.