Village to Vogue Arthur Smith Jewelry Brooklyn Exhibit - By: blog.RubyLane.com

If you will be in New York in early March, The Brooklyn Museum in New York should be a must include part of your trip. The museum is currently hosting a wonderful exhibit called "From the Village to Vogue." The exhibit honors the gift of gold and silver jewelry which were created by modernist jewelry designer Arthur Smith, donated mainly from his heir and companion Charles Russel.

The exhibit will include twenty-one pieces of silver and gold jewelry which were created by the modernist jeweler Arthur Smith, who died in 1982. Smith, an prominent African American, was trained at Cooper Union and opened his first shop in Greenwich Village in 1946. He is known as one of the leading modernist designers of the mid 20th century.

The exhibit will not only include Smith's jewelry. It will be enhanced by archival material from the artist's estate, such as tools, period photographs of models, sketches and even the original Greenwich Village Jewelry shop sign.

There will also be an additional display of thirty pieces of modernist jewelry from the permanent Museum collection by such artists as Elsa Freund, Claire Falkenstein, Ed Weiner, and Frank Rebajes - other leading designers of the mid 20th century time period.

The designs of Art Smith are inspired by primitivism, surrealism and bimorphicism. The jewelry is dynamic in both size and form, even ranging to very large pieces such as the one shown here which extends over most of the model's forearm.

Designs date from the 1940s to the 1970s, so the exhibit will be of particular interest to vintage jewelry collectors, especially those fond of modernist retro jewelry. The exhibit started in early January and will be on display until March 14, 2010. If you will be in New York, it's a must see.

Brooklyn Museum Jewelry exhibit showing Art Smiths Gold and Silver Jewelry Creations as well as other Jewelry designers products from vintage throught to modern Jewelry designs.

Carol Speake
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