Modernist Jewelry, Modern Studio Jewelry, Mid Century, Contemporary Jewelry

Bauhaus, Biomorphic, Cubist, Dada, Geometric, Mobiles, Modernist Jewelry, Organic, Surrealist, Contemporary Jewelry, Modern Studio Jewelry Designers

Modern Studio Jewelry Artists

Check the alphabetized list for more info/links on these modernist artists.
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Alvar Aalto
David Aaron
Anni Albers
Gilbert Albert
Carlos Alemany
Vera Allsion b.1902-d.1993
Adda Husted-Andersen
Harold J. Atwater
Gregory P. Bacopulos
Otto Robert Bade (ORB)
Evelyn Balch
Carlton Ball
Mildred Lee Ball
Martha Brennan Barns
Bartek
Olov Barve
Friedrich Becker
Jane Beckman
Ward Bennett
Franz Bergmann
Harry Bertoia
John Best
Marsha Best
Max Bill
Marsh Bohr
Kay Bojesen
Frances Holmes Boothby
M.N. Boyer
Michael J. Brandt, Jr.
Jules Brenner
George Brooks
Howard O. Brown
Juanita F. Brown

What I Remember

Irena Brynner

Torun - Conversation with Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe

Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe

Madeleine Burrage

Calder Jewelry

Alexander Calder

A. Calderoni
Eleanor Caldwell
Jean Claude Champagnat
O.K. Chatt
Maxwell M.Chayat
Desmond Clen-Murphy
Izabel Coles
Betty Cooke
Margret Craver
Inga Dahlquist
Salvador Dalì
Andrew Day
Muriel Day
Erika Hult de Corral
Julio de Diego
J. DeFeo
William De Hart
Ernst Dennler
Margaret Strong Bielawski De Patta
José de Rivera
Jean Després
Stuart Devlin
Robert Dhaemers
Bess Diamond
John Dickerhoff
Jørgen Ditzel
Nanna Ditzel
Virginia Dudley
Archibald Dumbar
D. Lee Dusell
Mary Dusell
Charles and Ray Eames
Roger D. Easton
Audrey Engstrom
Robert Engstrom
George Faddis
Lester Fader

Claire Falkenstein
Fred Farr
Phillip Fike
Gerda Flöckinger
Elsa Freund
Max Fröhlich
Robert A. Gabriel
Robert E. Gardner
Jerome E. Gates
May G. Gay
Marilyn Zirkel Goodman
William George Haendel
Alexander Hammid
Thom Hannan
Wiltz Harrison
Esther Hartshorn
Lee Haslam
David P. Hatch
Frances (Stewart) Higgins
Fannie Hillsmith
Hogan-Bolas
Joan Hurst
Phyllis W. Jacobs

Georg Jensen Jewelry

Georg Arthur Jensen

Gertrude Karlan
Sigrid Keetman
Edvard Kindt-Larsen
Tove Kindt-Larsen
Arthur King
Jill Kingsbury
Feickert Koch
Henning Koppel
Carol Kramer
Sam Kramer
Hilda Krauss
Earl Krentzin
Mary Kretsinger
Kupittaan Kulta
James S. Lanham
Ibram Lassaw
Frederick Lauritzen
Lucienne Lazon
Stanley Lechtzin
Frank Lee
Ed Levin
Julien Levy
Jacques Lipchitz
Paul A. Lobel
Fritz Loosli
A. Lucas
Peter Macchiarini
Everett Macdonald
Lorenzo Martignetti
Charles James Martin
Bruno Martinazzi
Sonja Matare
Miyé Matsukata
Luigi Mazzetti
Bob McCabe
Lawrence McKinin
Louis A. McMillen
Mellerio
Georges Mendelssohn
Joan Miró
Lázló Moholy-Nagy
Philip Morton
Genny Mucchi
Peter Müller-Munk
Napier
Wiwen Nilsson
Orlando Paladino Orlandini
Earl Pardon
James A. Parker
Philip Paval
Ronald Hayes Pearson
Miriam Smith Peck
Coralynn Pence
Ruth Penington
Sigurd Persson
Marianna Pineda
Mario Pinton

Dorothy Price
E. Peter Petersen
Daniel Peterson
Nelle Peterson
Angela Petesch
Pablo Ruiz Picasso
Carl O. Podzsus
Arnaldo Pomodoro
Giorgio (Giò) Pomodoro
Richard Pousette-Dart
Jean Élisée Puiforcat
Ruth Radakovich
Svetozar Radakovich
Richard P. Raseman
Frank Rebajes
Alex Reed
F. Jules Reed
Maria Regnier
B. M. Reid
Merry Renk
Florence Resnikoff
Walter Rhodes
Rima

Ruth Roach
b.1913 Chisholm MN USA-d.1979

Caroline Gleick Rosene
Herman Roth
Thomas E. Ryder
George K. Salo
Muriel Savin
Zahara Schatz
Pearl S. Schecter
Alice H. Schell
Gertrude Schick
Christian F. Schmidt
Franco Schreiber
Martin Seitz
Sigi
Ellis Simpson
Maud Smit
Art Smith
Paul John Smith
Orville H. Soffa
Ettore Sottsass

Spratling Silver

William Spratling

Chris Steenbergen
Henry Steig
Francis Stephen
Anneliese Steppat
Jean Sterne
Bernice A. Stevens
Marianne Strengell
Paul R. Suttman
Poul Svarre
John Szymak
Raymond Templier
William (Bill) Tendler
Richard G. Thiel
Ken Thompson
Edgar A. Trapp
Elizabeth Treskow
Wolfgang Tumpell
Paavo Tynell
Saara Hopea Untracht
Anne G. Van Kleeck
Arthur A. Vierthaler
Robert von Neumann
Fennell Wallin
Ebbe Weiss-Weingart
Bengt Wettersjo
Kay White
Edward (Ed) Wiener
Byron Wilson
Charles Robert (Bob) Winston
Tapio Wirkkala
Eva Zeisel
Alice E. Zimmerman
Walter Zipper

Wonderful lecture by Toni Greenbaum
MAG to SNAG: American Studio Jewelry 1940-1970

Books & Publications

Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933 (Whitney Museum of American Art) - Joan Simon, Brigitte Leal Sept. 2008

Calder Jewelry 2007

Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles - Jean Lipman 1981

The Book of Nanna Ditzel - by Henrik Sten Møller 1998 - Published by Rhodos
Contemporary Jewelry - A Studio Handbook - Philip Morton 1970

Design 1935-1965, What Modern Was - Paul Johnson, Martin Eidelberg 2001

Design . Jewelry - Betty Cooke (retrospective exhibiton catalogue) Maryland Institute College of Art 1995

Form & Function: American Modernist Jewelry, 1940-1970 - Marbeth Schon 2008

Jewelry As An Art Form - Irena Brynner 1979

Jewelry Making as an Art Expression - D. Kenneth Winebrenner 1953

The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta - (retrospective exhibiton catalogue) Oakland Museum 1976

Messengers of Modernism - Toni Greenbaum 1996

Modernist Jewelry 1930-1960: The Wearable Art Movement - Marbeth Schon 2004

Modern Jewelry - Design and Technique - Irena Brynner 1968

What I Remember - Irena Brynner 2003

Viennese Silver: Modern Design 1780-1918 - Jr Godsey William D.,
Markus Brüderlin, William D. Godsey Jr., Michael Huey, Diether Halama 2003

330 Mark McDonald (of Fifty/50 Gallery)- New York, NY USA
allmodern - jewelry + design of the 20th century
Center for Jewelry Studies - Christie Romero
Circa50 - Mid-century design
Design Addict - resource for modern, post-modern + contemporary design of the 20th-21st centuries
Effie-Graa - a world of Scandinavian modern jewelry and design
Go Mod
Los Angeles Conservancy Modern Committee
Lotta Living - your ultra style guide for modern living
Modernity
Pegboard Modern - vintage modern furniture and design
Simply Mod