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Brooch

Art Smith

Brooch

1948

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Art Smith

Brooch

1948

Physical Qualities Copper, brass, 3 5/16 × 2 3/4 in. (8.4 × 7 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Lowery Stokes Sims, Baltimore
Object Number 2021.172
Modernist brooch by Art Smith, 1949. Copper and brass. Handmade abstract form.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2021; Lowery Stokes Sims (b. 1949), Baltimore, MD by gift, early-mid 1990s; Leslie King-Hammond (b. 1944), Baltimore, MD by descent, early-mid 1990s

Inscribed: Signed: "Art Smith" cursive, impressed on back

Maker

Art Smith

1916–1981

American, born Cuba, 1917-1982
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