id: 342262 accession number: 2019.36 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.36 updated: 2023-03-22 03:05:24.973000 Patina Necklace, c. 1955. Arthur George (Art) Smith, (American, 1917–1982). Silver; 28.3 x 15.6 x 0.6 cm (11 1/8 x 6 1/8 x 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum purchase from various donors by exchange 2019.36 © The Estate of Art Smith title: Patina Necklace title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1955 creation date earliest: 1955 creation date latest: 1955 current location: creditline: Museum purchase from various donors by exchange copyright: © The Estate of Art Smith --- culture: America technique: silver department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Jewelry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Arthur George (Art) Smith, (American, 1917–1982) - artist --- measurements: 28.3 x 15.6 x 0.6 cm (11 1/8 x 6 1/8 x 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Private Collector, Washington, DC date: c. 1955-? footnotes: citations: 330 Gallery, Hudson, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-2019 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2019- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Art Smith was an African American artisan jeweler who created bold, expressive jewelry while living in New York City’s Greenwich Village in the 1950s and 1960s. digital description: Patina is an iconic necklace design from one of the most innovative American artisan jewelers of the 20th century, Art Smith. Living and working in New York City’s Greenwich Village, Smith created bold, expressive jewelry that reflected similar trends in architecture, interior design, and fashion. Smith’s work is sculptural, referencing the biomorphic, asymmetrical work of Alexander Calder and Harry Bertoia, among others. His work is also technically challenging, incorporating precise volumes and weights so that the components will hang properly; contours that cling to the body as if an extension of it; and intricate finishing to achieve just the right amount of surface texture—an aspect so important to this design that he named it Patina. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES