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2014 Silver: An American Art—Selections from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

August 29, 2014 — April 4, 2015

Location:
Caroline Wiess Law Building
1001 Bissonnet
Houston, TX 77005

This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Over the past decade, the Museum’s holdings of American silver have grown significantly. Through purchases and gifts, the story of the silversmithing tradition in this country can now be more fully told. Private collections, including those of Milo M. Naeve and Mary Beth Baird, also have brought to the Museum the works of unsung female silversmiths, unusual flatware made for the Victorian dining table, unique wares made for the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris, and many other treasures.

Silver: An American Art—Selections from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston showcases these important new additions to the collection, all created in America between 1870 and 1960. Highlights of the exhibition include pieces made by Arts and Crafts silversmith Mary Peyton Winlock and Danish-trained smith Peer Smed, as well the great American silver companies Gorham and Tiffany.

Over the past decade, the American silver holdings of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, have grown significantly. Through purchases and gifts, the story of the silversmithing tradition in this country can now be more fully told. Private collections, including those of Milo M. Naeve and Mary Beth Baird, also have brought to the Museum the works of unsung female silversmiths, unusual flatware made for the Victorian dining table, unique wares made for the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris, and many other treasures.

Silver: An American Art will showcase these important new additions to the collection. Made in America between 1870 and 1960, highlights of the exhibition include pieces made by the Arts and Crafts silversmith Mary Peyton Winlock, Danish-trained smith Peer Smed, as well the great American silver companies, Gorham, and Tiffany.

Silver: An American Art is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The curator is Christine Gervais, associate curator, decorative arts and Rienzi. An illustrated catalogue of the Naeve Collection will be available at the MFAH Shop.

*As of October 2014, the closing date is April 5, 2015, a change from the originally scheduled closing date of February 15, 2015.

WORKS BY EMIL CARLSEN

Emil Carlsen : Still life [jug, pot, bottom of kettle], 1920.