id: 452801 accession number: 2019.181.a share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.181.a updated: 2022-06-01 09:00:38.790000 Cephalopod Pendant Brooch, 1962. John Paul Miller (American, 1918-2013). Gold; 7 x 5.5 x 1 cm (2 3/4 x 2 3/16 x 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Aileen and Julian Kassen 2019.181.a title: Cephalopod Pendant Brooch title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1962 creation date earliest: 1957 creation date latest: 1967 current location: creditline: Gift of Aileen and Julian Kassen copyright: --- culture: America technique: Gold department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Jewelry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * John Paul Miller (American, 1918-2013) - artist --- measurements: 7 x 5.5 x 1 cm (2 3/4 x 2 3/16 x 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Marked 18K and JPM on reverse of brooch. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963 May Show --- PROVENANCE Julian Kassen, M.D., purchase from the artist, thence by descent to Melinda Kassen date: 1962-? footnotes: citations: Melinda Kassen, Boulder, CO, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-2019 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2019- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: John Paul Miller is credited with rediscovering the lost ancient technique of fusing pure gold onto gold surfaces, called granulation, in 1953. digital description: John Paul Miller took inspiration from many sources, but his most prolific work references forgotten creatures of the sea and land—snails, insects, and amoeboid fish. This work represents a cephalopod or a many-legged mollusk. In this strangely shaped form, Miller found a vehicle for expressing his artistic technique of layering gold upon gold to imitate the crusty nature of the shell and the tangle of its tentacles. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS page number: url: --- IMAGES