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San Francisco-area artist Margaret de Patta approached her jewelry as small sculpture, treating each piece as a complex composition scaled to a wearable size. She created kinetic forms with contrasting textures that played with light and space while moving with the wearer.
Brooch
Margaret De Patta (American, 1903–1964)
about 1950
Object Place: San Francisco, California
Medium/Technique
Silver, quartz
Dimensions
Overall: 5.1 x 8.9 x 1.3 cm (2 x 3 1/2 x 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
The Daphne Farago Collection
Accession Number2006.121
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Brooches
San Francisco-area artist Margaret de Patta approached her jewelry as small sculpture, treating each piece as a complex composition scaled to a wearable size. She created kinetic forms with contrasting textures that played with light and space while moving with the wearer.
DescriptionComprised of two asymmetric free-form elements, one is polished, the other oxidized and textured. Terminating in circular bezel-set polished round colorless quartz
Signed
Impressed on reverse " sterling" /device of a stylized M"
ProvenanceGansevoort Gallery; Daphne Farago, December 26, 1996 Daphne Farago; to MFA, 2006, gift of Daphne Farago.
CopyrightReproduced with permission.