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NOT TITLED 9 Brooch
This is a brooch. It was designed by Thomas Gentille. It is dated early 21st century and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is aluminum. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Gentile approaches jewelry design from the perspective that brooches are the ideal type of jewelry because they are flexible--that function need not interfere with appearance. His brooches are at once sculptural and geometric, emphasizing the medium and his background in sculpture. This brooch, with its simple abstract geometry recalls the artists of mid-century Minimalism.
This object was
donated by
Susan Lewin.
It is credited The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
- Aluminum with Glass Beads Matchsafe
- aluminum, turquoise glass beads.
- Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener.
- 1980-14-842
- Box With Lid (Austria)
- glass.
- Museum purchase through gift of Dale and Doug Anderson, Anonymous Donor,....
- 2009-18-74-a,b
- RCA Victor Special Phonograph Phonograph
- aluminum, chromium-plated steel, metal, plastic, felt, leather, velvet.
- Gift of George R. Kravis II.
- 2016-5-11
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 2 × 11 × 1.5 cm (13/16 × 4 5/16 × 9/16 in.)
It has the following markings
On reverse, etched signature 'T. Gentile' and stamped under signature in printed letters, 'T. Gentile'.
Cite this object as
NOT TITLED 9 Brooch; Designed by Thomas Gentille (American, b. 1936); aluminum; H x W x D: 2 × 11 × 1.5 cm (13/16 × 4 5/16 × 9/16 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-35
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection.
