The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Modern Cuff Bracelet
c. 1948
(American, 1917–1982)
10.2 x 7.3 x 7.3 cm (4 x 2 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.)
Gift of Lee and Lili Siegelson 2020.91
© The Estate of Art Smith
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
An openly gay African American artist, Art Smith became popular with artists and musicians working in Greenwich Village where he maintained a studio and shop.Description
Art Smith was one of America’s leading modernist jewelers. From the 1940s to the 1970s he created bold, dramatic pieces out of brass, copper, and silver from his Greenwich Village studio in New York City. The Modern Cuff Bracelet is a careful study in contrasts—light and dark, positive and negative—blending modernist motifs with a traditional African form.- ?-2020Lee Siegelson, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art2020-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- nullcf. Foley, Mark, et. al. Structure and Ornament: American Modernist Jewelry 1940–1960. New York: Fifty/50, 1984 Covercf. Harwood, Barry. From the Village to the Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith. New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 2008, exhibition catalogue p. 15
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