The Brooklyn Museum is delighted to own jewelry and the archives of Art Smith which has been showcas

The Brooklyn Museum is delighted to own jewelry and the archives of Art Smith which has been showcased in a previous exhibition, From the Village to Vogue: the Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith which is making its way back to Brooklyn. The Libraries and Archives has accessioned a unique group of archival materials some of which were in the travelling exhibition.Art Smith was an artist with roots in Brooklyn who had a background in architecture, painting and decorative design from Cooper Union in New York City. Collaborating with another artist on jewelry designs, Smith opened his first shop on Cornelia Street in 1946. In 1948, he opened his own jewelry shop, Art Smith Jewelry in Greenwich Village.The collection came to the Museum in 2007 and included the Art Smith Papers with correspondence, notebooks, sketches, bills and receipts and publications such as exhibition catalogues, newspaper clippings and photographs documenting his work as a jewelry designer.Some of the notebooks, filled with sketches, notes, and lists, are currently on view in the Brooklyn Museum Library.Posted by Jennifer Neal -- source link

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