The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - JB News Feed

Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection, on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston places contemporary jewelry within the larger framework of twentieth and twenty-first century art. Tracing the history of the artists and the aesthetic influences and technical innovation of the jewelry, the exhibition showcases a broad array of national and international works from the 1960s through today.

In addition to approximately 275 pieces of jewelry, Ornament as Art also contains drawings, watercolors, sketchbooks and sculptural constructions by the artists. The exhibition draws entirely from the MFAH’s celebrated Helen Williams Drutt Collection of contemporary jewelry, the most significant contemporary jewelry collection in the United States. Acquired by the museum in 2002, the collection, assembled by legendary scholar and educator Helen Drutt, consists of 720 pieces of jewelry and 84 works on paper. Over 175 artists from 18 different countries are represented with the largest concentration working in the United States, Western Europe, Japan, and Australia. Ornament as Art is on view from September 30, 2007 through January 21, 2008. The exhibition will then begin a national tour, appearing next at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery in Washington D.C.

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Posted by Posted by Jewelry News at Friday, September 28, 2007 7:26 AM
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