Metal Rising: The Forming of the Metal Arts Guild, San Francisco (1929-1964)

This thesis examines the formation of the Metal Arts Guild of San Francisco (MAG) through the careers of three pivotal metalworkers: Margaret De Patta, Peter Macchiarini, and Irena Brynner, who were central figures in the American modernist studio jewelry movement. It examines the socio-economic and political events giving impetus for a group of individual metal craftspeople to start organizing, the aims of MAG, and the impact the Guild and its members on a local, national, and international level.

Author

• Shaifer, Jennifer

Language

• en

Keyword

• Margaret De Patta
• Studio jewelry
• California
• Metal Arts Guild
• Decorative Arts
• Modernism

Date created

• 2011

Type of Work

• Master's Thesis

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Decorative Arts

Degree

• M.A.

Advisor

• Muniz, Julie
• Nasstrom Evans, Heidi

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/gb19f605c