Mid-Century & Modern
Jewelry - 1930's - 1965
In the
early 1940s, a new movement in jewelry design was beginning in
the United States. American artist craftsmen chose to
express their frustration with society’s conventions through the
most intimate art form: jewelry. These were the formative years
for modernist jewelry which was derived in large part from the
modernism of the fine arts. Modernist jewelry more closely
identified itself as an art form than a craft form. Jewelers
thought of their pieces as fine art to wear and their shops were
small galleries or museums. This new jewelry appealed to the
young "liberal, intellectual fringe" of middle-class American
collectors who championed modern art. Explore Mid-Century &
Modern jewelry here.
