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City Flora/City Flotsam Series
American Collar II
City Flora/City Flotsam Series
Jan Yager (American, 1951 – 2024)
1996
Medium/Technique
Plastic, rubber, stainless steel, silver, crack vials, crack caps, syringes, cast silver crack cap.
Dimensions
Overall: 33 x 31.1 x 0.6 cm (13 x 12 1/4 x 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
The Daphne Farago Collection
Accession Number2006.633
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Contemporary Art, Americas
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Necklaces and neck bands
Jan Yager's City Flora/City Flotsam series examines the urban landscape outside her studio. Beginning in 1990, Yager began to "beachcomb" the sidewalks around her studio in north Philadelphia, returning with bullet casings, crack vials, and shattered auto glass from which she made conceptual jewelry like American Collar II.
DescriptionNecklace composed of found objects. Plastic, rubber, stainless steel, sterling silver, 139 crack vials, 222 crack caps, 2 syringes (found), sterling crack cap (cast); Gathered, sanitized, sorted, rilled, strung, cast.
ProvenanceJan Yager; Daphne Farago, December 14, 2001 Daphne Farago; to MFA, 2006, gift of Daphne Farago.
Copyright© Jan Yager