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Crushed
Bruce Metcalf (American, born in 1949)
1989
Object Place: Kent, Ohio
Medium/Technique
Silver, volcanic rock, plexiglas, and drawing on mylar
Dimensions
Overall: 8.9 x 5.1 x 3.2 cm (3 1/2 x 2 x 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
The Daphne Farago Collection
Accession Number2006.357
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Contemporary Art, Americas
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Brooches
DescriptionSilver abstract figure with hydrocephalic head and vestigial limbs is crushed beteen two lava rocks. Surmounted on a plaque of gray -and- orange field drawn on mylar.
Signed
Applied silver plaque on rear is signed "Bruce Metcalf '89"
ProvenanceBruce Metcalf; Daphne Farago, January 4, 1992 Daphne Farago; to MFA, 2006, gift of Daphne Farago.
Copyright© Bruce Metcalf