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Georgian diamond and crystal “Scarab” ring set in gold with a Contemporary miniature painting by Dina Brodsky, c. 1890
Georgian diamond and crystal “Scarab” ring set in gold with a Contemporary miniature painting by Dina Brodsky, c. 1890
GYÖRGY KEPES (1906-2001) Hungary/USA
Abstraction 1942
Silver gelatin print
Signed: 9 (in a circle, on back); Gyorgy Kepes 1942 (in ink on back)
György Kepes was a Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus (later the School of Design, then Institute of Design, then Illinois Institute of Design or IIT) in Chicago. In 1947 He founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his retirement in 1974.
Framed size: H: 29 3/16” x W: 25 ¼”
TLINGIT TRIBE / NORTHWEST COAST
Chevron/diamond storage basket, late 19th Century, early 20th Century
Handwoven split conifer root (buff), bear grass (white), woodwardia fern stem dyed with alder bark (rust), maidenhair fern stem (black), willow shoots
For more information see: The Fine Art of California Indian Basketry, Brian Bibby (Sacramento/Berkeley: Crocker Art Museum, Heyday Books, 1996), p. 90.
H: 8 1/2” x D: 11”