The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith at the Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum: The Jewelry of Art Smith

The Brooklyn Museum is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country, boasting a world-renowned permanent collection that encompasses a wide range of eras and cultures. Company employees enjoy free museum admission with four guests and 10-percent discounts at the museum gift shop.

Be sure to visit this exciting temporary exhibition now on display:

From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith
Through March 14

This exhibition highlights the silver and gold jewelry created by the Brooklyn-reared modernist jeweler Arthur Smith (1917–1982). Inspired by surrealism, biomorphism, and primitivism, Smith’s jewelry is dynamic in its size and form.

African-American artist Smith trained at Cooper Union and opened his first shop on Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village in 1946.This presentation of Smith’s jewelry is enhanced by archival material from the artist’s estate, such as sketches, the original shop sign, the artist’s tools, and period photographs of models wearing the jewelry.

For directions and more information about the Brooklyn Museum’s permanent and temporary exhibitions, visit http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/.

The Brooklyn Museum is located at 200 Eastern Parkway.