Eleanor Moty, born Glen Ellyn, IL 1945 Search this
Medium:
constructed, scored, folded, and soldered sterling silver, 22k gold, and limonated topaz
Dimensions:
5 5/8 x 2 x 3/4 in. (14.3 x 5.2 x 2.0 cm.)
Type:
Decorative Arts-Jewelry
Crafts
Date:
1990
Luce Center Label:
The artist credits her design approach to her childhood on a farm, where “only the essence of form remained” in the winter landscape. Eleanor Moty creates brooches that contain subtle references to this reductive, beautiful geography, as seen here in Folded Brooch, where the linear inclusions of the topaz are “reminiscent of blades of grass and stems projecting through ice on a frozen pond.”
Luce Object Quote:
“Landscape has been a subtle influence stemming from my childhood on a farm in Illinois where the horizon line was always visible and the land’s texture and color were constantly changing with the plantings and the seasons.” Artist’s statement, 1995
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Karen Johnson Boyd in honor of Michael W. Monroe for his years of dedication to the Renwick Gallery
