Author: Newark, NJ: Newark Museum, May 7 to Nov. 2, 1997
Title: The Glitter & the Gold: Fashioning America's Jewelry
Description: 1997. Softcover. Purple illustrated wraps. 189 pp. 247 color & bw plates. Exhibition catalogue. Lively and informative essays by Ulysses Grant Dietz, Jenna Weissman Joselit, Kevin J. Smead, and Janet Zapata accompany an extensive biographical section with detailed information on seventy-three of the most significant jewelry makers. Lavishly illustrated. Contents as follows: Chairman's Foreword / Kevin M. Shanley -- Director's Foreword / Mary Sue Sweeney Price -- Acknowledgments / Ulysses Grant Dietz and Janet Zapata -- The Glitter & The Gold: Fashioning America's Jewelry / Ulysses Grant Dietz -- Jewelry: The Natural Gift / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- Producing What America Wanted: Jewelry from Newark's Workshops / Ulysses Grant Dietz -- "An intelligent, respectable well-dressed body of men": A History of Newark's Jewelry Workers from the Industry's Founding to the Great Depression / Kevin J. Smead -- The Names Behind the Jewelry: Summary Biographies of Newark Jewelry Makers / Janet Zapata. VG .

Keywords: American Decorative Arts ; American Jewelry ; ; Jewelry - American


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