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Robin Kranitzky & Kim Overstreet
'Salmon Dream' Brooch and Stand1999

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Mixed-media sculpture with copper-toned fan or tail-fin form, open book with fish imagery, pine trees, and insect-like legs on a layered base
Mixed-media sculpture shaped like an open book with dark leather-like covers; left page bears raised cursive lettering reading "Salmon" and textured rocky cavern forms; right page features a painted leaping fish in green and blue tones amid dark clustered masses, with sandy and painted interior surfaces.
Artist or Maker
Robin Kranitzky & Kim Overstreet
United States, Virginia, 1955 and 1956
Title
'Salmon Dream' Brooch and Stand
Date Made
1999
Medium
Wood, polymethyl methacrylate, brass, silver, copper, polymer clay, printed paper, acetate, MicartaTM, found objects
Dimensions
Brooch: 2 3/4 × 4 1/2 × 3/4 in. (6.99 × 11.43 × 1.91 cm) Stand: 8 × 9 × 8 1/2 in. (20.32 × 22.86 × 21.59 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Lois and Bob Boardman
Accession Number
M.2015.252.35a-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
© Kranitzky & Overstreet

Related Unframed

Beyond Bling: Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection
Beyond Bling: Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection
  • September 28, 2016
  • Rosie Chambers Mills, Bobbye Tigerman