The Dancer (Earrings)
ca. 1947
Ed Wiener
American, 1918-1991
Decorative Arts
The Dancer brooch and earrings were inspired by a photograph by Barbara Morgan of the dancer Martha Graham performing in Letters to the World in 1941. A free-flowing silhouette, the brooch was cut from a sheet of silver. Wiener said of this piece, “Even in doing literal translations, it was important to move into abstraction and evolve a secondary level of recognition.”
- Maker/Artist
- Ed Wiener
- Classification
- Jewelry
- Formatted Medium
- Silver
- Medium
- silver
- Dimensions
- a & b: 1 x 3/4 in. (2.5 x 1.9 cm)
- Inscribed
- no inscriptions
- Departments
- Decorative Arts
- Accession Number
- 1995.192.2a-b
- Credit Line
- Gift of Michele Wiener Caplan
- Exhibitions
- Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960, From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
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