Brooch ("The Dancer")

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Brooch ("The Dancer")

Artist Ed Wiener (American, 1918-1991)

Dateabout 1948

DimensionsH: 2 3/4 in.; W: 1 3/4 in.

MediumSilver

ClassificationJewelry

Credit LinePurchased with funds given by Rita Barbour Kern in honor of her grandnieces, Alexandra K. and Francesca M. Buss

Object number

2003.12

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 34, Jewelry Gallery

Label TextEd Wiener, a native New Yorker, began his career in artist circles in Provincetown and Greenwich Village, in the early days of the Abstract Expressionist movement of the late 1940s. This brooch is typical of his work in silver, his preferred material until the late 1940s. The stylized figure of a dancer with her arm thrown over her head and her skirt pulled between her legs was inspired by the great 20th-century choreographer and dancer Martha Graham (1894–1991), who also was one of his clients.Published ReferencesSusan Grant Lewin, One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today (New York, 19940, p. 36. Dr. Milton W. Brown and Dr. Blanche R. Brown, Jewelry by Ed Weiner (New York: 1989), p. 8. Mark Foley, Structure and Ornament American Modernist Jewelry 1940-1960 (New York: 1984), ill. 53.