Archive - Jewellery books by Country - Americas

The following titles have been noted by Jewellery History Today. Titles with a reference to JHT at the end are reviewed in that issue. To read the review (members only), click here.

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American

(for Native American, see publications archive, subject, ethnic.)

American Jewelry from New Mexico.

Museum of New Mexico Press, 2018, $39.95.

286 pages, hardback, 9.5 x 10.5 inches.

ISBN: 978-0890136386

Jewelry USA.

American Craft Museum.

American Craft Council, New York, 1984 .

60 pages, paperback, 8.5 x 8.5 inches.

ISBN 978-0883210536

Published in association with a national competition sponsored by the Society of North American Golsdmiths and the American Craft Museum

Structure and ornament : American modernist jewelry 1940-1960.

Exhibition catalogue.

Fifty-50 Mid Century Decorative Arts, New York, 1984.

42 pages, paperback.

Illustrated Jewelry Catalog, 1892. New England Jeweler.

Catalogue reprint.

Dover Publications (Jewelry and Metalwork), 2012.

160 pages, paperback, 8.2 x 10.9 inches.

ISBN 978-0486402963

Creating Beauty: Jewelry and Enamels of the American Arts & Crafts Movement.

Rosalie Berberian.

Schiffer, 2019, $52.50.

272 pages, hardback, 9.5 x 12.5 inches.

ISBN: 978-0764357466

Contemporary American Jewelry Design.

Ettagale Blauer .

Springer, 1991.

198 pages, hardback, 8.8 x 11.2 inches.

ISBN: 978-0442003623

A Tribute To America Costume Jewelry 1935-1950.

Carla & Roberto Brunialti .

Edita, Milan, 2002.

229 pages, paperback, 9.5 x 12 inches.

Brillanti illusioni. Piccola guida alla produzione della bigiotteria americana nel Novecento.

Maria Teresa Cannizzaro.

Edizioni Essegi, 2000.

64 pages, paperback, Italian.

ISBN: 978-8871892665

History of American Jewelry Designers and Manufacturers.

Cheryl M. Cassidy.

PublishAmerica, 2009.

254 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches.

ISBN: 978-1615464739

Jewelry of Burning Man.

Karen Christians, Christine Kristen.

Unabridged, 2015.

191 pages, hardback, 12 x 9 inches.

ISBN: 978-0985528416

1810: Celebrating Two Centuries of American Luxury.

Karen Danner, Jennifer Heebner.

Black, Starr & Frost, 2014, $39.99.

135 pages, hardback, 11.3 x 11.2 inches.

ISBN: 978-0692328194

In Flux: American Jewelry and the Counterculture.

Susan Cummins, Damian Skinner, Cindi Strauss.

Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2020, £32.

184 pages, paperback, 17 x 25 cm.

ISBN: 978-3897905979

Brilliance! Masterpieces from The American Jewelry Design Council.

Cindy Edelstein.

Lark Books, 2008.

228 pages, paperback, 8.8 x 9 inches.

ISBN: 978-1600591570

Messengers of Modernism: American Studio Jewelry 1940-1960.

Martin Eidelberg, Toni Greenbaum.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in association with Flammarion, 1996.

168 pages, hardback, 8.3 x 6.8 inches.

ISBN: 978-2080135933

Jewelry in America, 1600-1900.

Martha Gandy Fales.

Antique Collectors' Club, 1995.

448 pages, hardback, 11.1 x 8.9 inches.

ISBN: 978-1851492237

European and American Jewellery, 1830-1914.

Charlotte Gere.

William Heinemann Ltd, 1975.

288 pages, hardback, 25 x 18.8 cm.

ISBN: 978-0434288007

One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today.

Susan Grant Lewin.

Harry N Abrams Inc, 1994.

224 pages, hardback, 9.2 x 11.5 inches.

ISBN: 978-0810931985

All My Baskets: American Costume Jewelry.

Gabriella Mariotti.

Franco Maria Ricci, 1996.

72 pages, hardback, 9.1 x 6.6 inches, Italian, English.

ISBN: 978-8821639043

The Jewelry of Ken Cory: Play Disguised.

Ben Mitchell.

University of Washington Press, 1997.

135 pages, paperback, 9.2 x 6.5 inches.

ISBN: 978-0295976624.

Published in association with an exhibition at the Tacoma Art Museum, WA

David Webb, The Quintessential American Jeweler.

Ruth Peltason.

Assouline Publishing, 2013, $85.

368 pages, hardback, 13.2 x 9.7 inches.

ISBN: 978-1614281511

American Jewelry: Glamour and Tradition.

Penny Proddow, Debra Healy.

Rizzoli International Publications, 1987.

176 pages, hardback, 28.4 x 22.1 cm .

ISBN: 978-0847808304

Zero Karat: The Donna Schneier Gift to the American Craft Museum.

Nancy Preu, Ursula Ilse-Neuman.

American Craft Museum, 2002. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1890385088.

Published in association with an exhibition at the American Craft Museum, New York

American Jewelry Manufacturers.

Dorothy T Rainwater.

Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 1997.

296 pages, hardback, 9 x 11.2 inches.

ISBN: 978-0887401206

American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700.

Molly A. Warsh.

University of North Carolina Press, 2018, $39.95.

304 pages, hardback, 6.5 x 9.5 inches.

ISBN: 978-1469638973. JHT 34

Published in association with the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.

Brazilian

Joia Contemporanea Brasileira: Brazilian Contemporary Jewelry.

Renato Wagner.

n/a, 1980.

268 pages, hardback, quarto, Portuguese, English.

Canadian

Ornament and Object: Canadian Jewellery and Metal Art 1946-1996.

Anne Barros.

Boston Mills Press, 1997.

176 pages, Hardback, 10.3 x 9.4 inches.

ISBN: 978-1550462180

Latin American

Relicarios: The Forgotten Jewels of Latin America.

Martha Egan

Fresco Fine Art Publications, 2020, $75.

276 pages, hardback, 30.5 x 26.7 cm

ISBN: 978-1934491744

Glitterati: Portraits and Jewelry from Colonial Latin America.

Donna Pierce, Julie Wilson Frick.

Denver Art Museum, 2016, $14.95.

96 pages, paperback, 8.4 x 5.8 inches.

ISBN: 978-0914738756.

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Denver Art Museum.

Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas.

Joanne Pillsbury, Timothy Potts, and Kim N. Richter.

Getty Publications, 2017, $59.95.

328 pages, hardback, 9.6 x 11.75 inches.

ISBN: 978-1606065488

Published in association with an exhibition at J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, USA.

Mexican

Spratling.

Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo.

Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Taxco, 1987.

225 pages, hardback, 8vo.

Published in association with an exhibition at the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Taxco.

Mexico's Maya Jewelry: Volume 1: Maya Mexico/Casa Maya.

Sandy Hargrove.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016, $26.50.

166 pages, paperback, 8.5 x 11 inches.

ISBN: 978-1530375561.

Mexico's Maya Jewelry: Volume 2: Maya Taxco.

Sandy Hargrove.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016, $16.50.

82 pages, paperback, 8.5 x 11 inches.

ISBN: 978-1530655847.

Margot Van Voorhies: The Art of Mexican Enameled Jewelry.

Penny C. Morrill.

Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Atglen, 2011.

200 pages, hardback, 11.3 x 8.8 inches.

ISBN: 978-0764335495.

Mexican silver: 20th century handwrought jewelry & metalwork.

Penny C. Morrill.

Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Atglen, 1994.

272 pages, hardback, 11 x 8.5 inches.

ISBN: 978-0887406102.

Updated version, 2007, ISBN: 978-0764313707.

Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda.

Gobi Stromberg.

Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2008, $35. 188 pages, paperback, 8.9 x 10 inches. ISBN: 978-0977834402.

Published to accompany an exhibition at Los Angeles and Santa Fe.

Reflections: Precolumbian inspiration in Mexican silver design, 1930-1970 .

Joanne Stuhr.

Tucson Museum of Art, 1999.

32 pages, paperback, 10.75 x 9.25 inches.

ISBN: 978-0911611175.

Published in association with an exhibition at the Tucson Museum of Art, and J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, USA.

Pre-Columbian

L'oro del Perù. Gioielli, simboli e leggende di civiltà scomparse.

Antonio Aimi.

Mondadori Electa, 2007.

127 pages, paperback, 28.4 x 24 cm.

ISBN: 978-8837057732.

Published in association with an exhibition at the Palazzo Chiericati, Vicenza

Power of the Sun: The Gold of Colombia.

Frank Herreman & Mireille Holsbeke.

Snoeck-Ducaji & Zoon, 1993.

192 pages, paperback, 24.8 x 29.8 cm.

ISBN: 978-9053490778.

Published in association with an exhibition at the Ethnographic Museum in Antwerp.