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Collections

Sondra Sherman
'Flowers and Still Life' Brooch and Box2010

Not on view
Altered book with circular hole cut through the title page, revealing a layered white paper-cut floral sculpture over colorful painted reproductions beneath
Silver metal brooch with an asymmetrical, openwork composition of bent wire loops, jagged cutout forms, and bundled linear elements radiating from a central disc with engraved circular patterns.

Sondra Sherman, 'Flowers and Still Life' Brooch and Box, 2010, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Lois and Bob Boardman, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Sondra Sherman
United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, born 1958
Title
'Flowers and Still Life' Brooch and Box
Date Made
2010
Medium
Silver, book
Dimensions
Brooch: 3 1/4 × 3 1/4 × 3/8 in. (8.26 × 8.26 × 0.95 cm) Box: 10 × 7 1/2 × 7/8 in. (25.4 × 19.05 × 2.22 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Lois and Bob Boardman
Accession Number
M.2013.221.32a-b
Classification
Jewelry and Adornments
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Mills, Rosie Chambers and Bobbye Tigerman. Beyond Bling: Contemporary Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2016.
Copyright
© Sondra Sherman