Exhibitions Archive - Americas
Caribbean
Victorian Jewellery
This mini-exhibition showcases jewellery from the period 1840 to 1900, the era of Queen Victoria's reign. Examples of the precious stone cameos and intaglios that were popular during this period will also be on display.
1/04/2011 – 30/06/2011
The Barbados Museum, Barbados, Caribbean
Latin American
Think Again: New Latin American Jewelry
The Museum of Arts and Design presents the first comprehensive overview of contemporary art jewelry from Latin America to be seen in the United States. The exhibition was organized by Otro Diseño Foundation for Cultural Cooperation and Development, and curated by Valeria Vallarta Siemelink. Think Again showcases more than 80 works by over fifty Latin American jewelry artists/designers including Mirla Fernandes and Claudia Cucchi (Brazil); Valentina Rosenthal (Chile); Elisa Gulminelli and Francisca Kweitel (Argentina);Jorge Manilla and Akides Fortes Cape Verdian (Mexico); and, Miguel Luciano (Puerto Rico). The contemporary works will be shown in context with a group of historical works primarily from Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Cuba, to further enhance the visitor's understanding and viewing experience.
12/10/2010 - 27/02/2011
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA
26/05/2011 – 16/10/2011
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA
Perles de liberté - Bijoux afro-brésiliens
Pearls of freedom - Afro-Brazilian jewellery
Among the twenty exhibitions of Europalia Brazil that trace the fascinating history of Brazilian art, Grand Hornu Images offers a unique perspective on Afro-Brazilian jewels, both historic and contemporary. Created and worn by slaves as a sign of recognition and empowerment, or inspired by the gods of the home, Afro-Brazilian jewellery combines symbolic and emotional symbolism with a strong and flamboyant aesthetic. All the jewellery shown is from public and private collections.
23/10/2011 - 26/02/2012
Grand-Hornu Images, B-7301 Hornu, Belgiun
Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda
In the years following the Mexican Revolution (1910–20), Mexican jewelry and other silver objects were crafted with an entirely innovative approach, informed by modernism and the creation of a new Mexican national identity. Antonio Pineda was a member of the Taxco School and is recognized as a world-class designer. Pineda’s jewelry is especially known for its elegant acknowledgment of the human form. It is often said that a Pineda fits the body perfectly, that it feels right when it is worn. Nearly two hundred examples of Pineda’s acclaimed silver work will be displayed.
24/08/2008 - 15/03/2009
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
4/06/2010 – 2/01/2011
Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Mexico: Teotihuacan, the Mysterious City of Pyramids
The exhibition presents some 450 artefacts from Mexico: colourful murals, precious clay vessels, stone sculptures, figures cut from obsidian, and wonderful jewellery. Also, visitors will be among the first to see some recently discovered, spectacular finds, including the magnificent sacrificial offerings from the Sun and Moon Pyramids and the Temple of the Feathered Serpent.
06/10/09 – 24/01/10
Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
21/02/2010 - 30/05/2010
Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Inca - origins and mysteries of the golden civilisation
The entire civilization will be reviewed through the 270 exhibited works: objects in gold, silver, bronze and copper, but also pottery, stone sculptures and wood, from the major Peruvian museums.
4/12/2009 – 27/06/2010
Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland
River of Gold: Precolumbian Treasures from Sitio Conte
This exhibit presents more than 120 exquisitely crafted pieces of Precolumbian goldwork from the University of Pennsylvania Museum's 1940 excavations at the ancient cemetery site of Sitio Conte in what is now central Panama. The exhibition includes large embossed plaques, cast pendants and nose ornaments, gold-sheathed ear rods, and necklaces of intricate beads-as well as polychrome ceramics, and objects made of precious and semi-precious stones, whale-tooth ivory, and bone.
11/10/2009 - 28/03/2010
Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI, USA
North American
Canadian
Weiter als der Horizont - Kunst der Welt: Der Mondflüsterer
Beyond the Horizon - Art of the World: the Moon Whisperer. Native American art prints and silver jewellery of the Canadian Pacific coast from the Larink collection
In 1979, Renate and Walter Larink "discovered" for the first time the art of the indigenous peoples of Canada's northwest coast and began to collect silkscreen prints, jewellery and wood carvings. Through their collector's passion they quickly developed friendships with artists from British Columbia, and Walter Larink became one of the best connoisseurs of contemporary art of the First Nations of Canada's Pacific coast. Since 2003, Renate and Walter Larink have generaously presented pieces from their collection to the State Museum of Ethnology in Munich. We are pleased that we can now display a selection of screen prints and silver jewellery from this collection.
22/09/2011 – 31/01/2012
Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, D-80538 München, Germany
Profit and Ambition: The Canadian Fur Trade, 1779–1821
This exhibition draws a riveting portrait of the fur trade’s cutthroat business practices and its physically demanding way of life. It also traces the fierce rivalry between the North West Company, and the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). It features about 90 artifacts and works of art. Among the many notable items are trade goods — such as muskets, metal tools, jewellery and ornaments — and rare articles of Aboriginal and European clothing. Many of the objects date from the late 1700s. Most of the artifacts are drawn from the Canadian Museum of Civilization’s own collections, but some come from a variety of other institutions such as the Canadian War Museum, Library and Archives Canada, the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, Parks Canada, and the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City.
17/05/2011 – 2/10/2011
Château Ramezay – Historic Site and Museum of Montréal, Canada
USA
The Vintage Woman: A Century of Costume Jewelry in America 1910-2010
Costume jewelry in America (1910-2010) is a fascinating story that came to life in a turbulent century darkened by two world wars and the Great Depression—indeed, times remarkably relevant to today. Master jewelers fled from Europe with little more than their tools and talent. With glass in lieu of gemstones, and pot metal substituting for gold, they created magnificently crafted jewelry so matchless in design that fine jewelry pales in comparison. At one time, costume jewelry was the fifth-largest industry in America and single-handedly made Providence, Rhode Island the costume jewelry manufacturing capital of the world. Featured in the exhibition are masterpieces by legendary designers Elsa Schiaparelli, Coco Chanel, Hattie Carnegie and Henry à la Pensée—Europeans who sought refuge, as well as fame and fortune, in America. Joseff of Hollywood, “the designer of the stars,” whose faux jewels adorned the Garbo in Camille, Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind and numerous other stars in other motion pictures, is another great name; Marcel Boucher and his wife, Sandra, designed for Cartier and Tiffany’s. And the renowned illustrator McClelland Barclay designed costume jewelry for two years before giving his life in the service of his country in World War II. There are the great houses of costume jewelry—Trifari, Coro, Miriam Haskell, Hobe and Ciner. And let us not forget the King of Faux Jewelry, Kenneth Jay Lane, who has been designing for over 60 years.
7/12/2010 - Spring 2011
Forbes Jewelry Gallery, New York, USA
Jesse Monongye: Opal Bears and Lapis Skies
This exhibition celebrates the 30-year career of the leading Navajo jeweler, Jesse Monongye. Best known for his inlaid bears, Jesse Monongye’s work also captures the celestial night skies and other imagery from his youth. After his earliest success as a jeweler, Monongye pursued avenues to expand his skills. As newer tools, including diamond-tipped cutting and grinding surfaces and ever more precise power tools became available, Monongye quickly added them to his workshop. Newer generations of power tools that were not available to earlier generations of jewelers have enabled Monongye to realize his artistic vision in ever more innovative ways. His inlay work has become legend, as has his ability to cut the most difficult precious stones, including opals, and many of these pieces will be on display. In addition, pieces by Monongye’s mentors, his father Preston Monongye and Hopi jeweler Charles Loloma, will be on display, showing the influence these two earlier acclaimed artists exerted on Monongye.
4/12/2010 - 26/06/2011
Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Jewelers of the Hudson Valley
The beauty of New York State’s Hudson Valley region has for hundreds of years inspired many artists who have chosen to work and live there. Living within the immediate vicinity of the New Paltz area are a number of prominent studio jewelry artists. This exhibition will feature the work of seven of these artists: Jennifer Trask, Tom Herman, Pat Flynn, Jamie Bennett, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Arthur Hash and Sergey Jivetin. In addition to work by these artists there will be pieces from the collection of the Samuel Dorsky Museum, State University of New York/New Paltz on display and selected works by students and graduates of the prestigious metals’ program at SUNY/New Paltz.
9/04/2011 - 25/06/2011
Forbes Jewelry Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Notorious and Notable: 20th Century Women of Style
Co-presented with the National Jewelry Institute, Notorious and Notable: 20th Century Women of Style highlights 80 prominent New York women who used their style, talent, or wealth to capture the attention of society and the media. The exhibition features a runway of original attire—much of it created by the most important designers of their times—and an impressive selection of jewelry crafted from the dawn of the 20th century to its close. The exhibition features such celebrated New York women as Mrs. Cornelius Whitney Vanderbilt, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Babe Paley, and Barbara Walters, as well as women from the arts world, including Isadora Duncan, Marian Anderson, Lena Horne, and Lauren Bacall. The exhibition offers an opportunity to encounter many of New York’s leading ladies past and present through their fashion and jewelry.
14/09/2010 - 3/01/2011
Museum of the City of New York, NY, USA
Mignon Faget: A Life in Art and Design
A native New Orleans artist, Mignon Faget has a national reputation in jewelry design. She began her career in 1967 by designing ladies’ apparel. In 1970 Faget’s creative impulses shifted from textiles to jewelry making, a career in which she has enjoyed immeasurable success for four decades. Through the years Faget has introduced over thirty major jewelry collections, each based on a particular theme. Architecture and nature are consistent sources of inspiration, persistently providing Faget with the initial creative spark that lies behind her translation of imagery into art. Faget has executed numerous special commissions for social, educational, and philanthropic organizations. This exhibition celebrates Faget’s career with more than 500 objects on display, including jewelry, clothing, drawings, photographs, linocuts, and glassware.
22/09/2010 - 2/01/2011
The Historic New Orleans Collection, LA, USA
Pittsburgh Adorned: Classic to Contemporary
Orr's Jewelers, presenting sponsor
More than 60 exquisite pieces from private local collections and Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History celebrate the many passions—including love, status, and even political beliefs—that jewelry evokes. The exhibition explores design trends of the past 200 years and features works by Alexander Calder, Barry Kieselstein-Cord, and David Webb, as well as contemporary local designers ROY and Ronald McNeish.
12/06/2010 - 17/10/2010
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Preciousness Preserved: Jewelry from the Charleston Museum's Collections from Antiquity to Today
Donated by generations of Charlestonians, these pieces span the globe and date from 500 B.C. to the mid-20th century. Jewelry collections ranging from men's accessories to mourning and hairwork pieces will be exhibited. Visitors can also view natural jewelry incorporating jet, corals, pearls, and lava rocks. And, finally, a display of gemstone jewelry will feature amethysts, garnets, diamonds, and pastes (faceted highcontent leaded glass that closely imitated diamonds).
6/11/2009 – 6/09/2010
The Charleston Museum, Charleston, USA
American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
This exhibition is the first Costume Institute exhibition drawn from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Met. It will explore developing perceptions of the modern American woman from 1890 to 1940 and how they have affected the way American women are seen today. Focusing on archetypes of American femininity through dress, the exhibition will reveal how the American woman initiated style revolutions that mirrored her social, political, and sexual emancipation. "Gibson Girls," "Bohemians," and "Screen Sirens," among others, helped lay the foundation for today's American woman. Each of the fashion styles also has a lovely piece of vintage jewelry from the appropriate era.
5/05/2010 - 15/08/2010
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
Jewels of the stars - Masterpieces of American jewellery
This exhibition will show more than 200 pieces of jewellery from the National Jewelry Institute in New York dating from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century, created for a prestigious American clientele by leading brands such as Tiffany or Van Cleef. With the idea that the superstars of Hollywood and figures of high society such as Grace Kelly, Joan Crawford, Jackie Kennedy have their legends associated with these ornaments, one wonders what will shine more, the jewellery or our eyes?
25/01/2010 – 7/05/2010
Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France
Bijoux americani d’epoca
Magnificent American jewels. This exhibition shows over 800 pieces of jewellery made between 1930 and 1980 in the United States of America (Providence, Rhode Island), a period of great imagination in which our compatriot goldsmiths were dedicated to the creation of costume jewellery rather than real jewels, which became famous thanks mainly to the movies. Many of these, in fact, have been worn by stars like Greta Garbo, Grace Kelly, Jacqueline Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn. The jewels were made in various materials, from alloys of gold or base metals to plastic, and were a curious and valid alternative to expensive jewellery, in a period, that of the Great Depression, around 1929, in which imagination and inventiveness at low cost were certainly welcome.
29/07/2009 – 01/11/2009
Il Museo del Presepe - Pinacoteca Civica di Imperia, Liguria, Italy