The little known collaboration between Tiffany designer Izabel M. Coles and intaglio artist Beth Benton Sutherland (click title below to read full post)
Monday, June 8, 2015
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES
In anticipation of this year's Belmont Stakes—where American Pharoah and his rider Victor Espinoza will race to end a 37-year drought on Triple Crown winners—we offer a collage of spirited stallions by Gustav Manz and others.
From top left: detail from manufacturing order for a Manz horse brooch and other jewelry, c. 1911 (Ferdinand Hotz stock book, courtesy Hotz family archives); yellow-gold and water-green tourmaline ring from F. Walter Lawrence's atelier, most likely carved by Manz (The Keystone, July 1905); Rosa Bonheur's iconic painting of the horse market held in Paris on the trued-lined Boulevard de l’Hôpital, completed in 1855 and given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1897. According to the Met's website, Bonheur sketched there twice a week for a year and a half, "dressing as a man to discourage attention."
Buyers for this and other equestrian motifs included Tiffany, Cartier, Shreve Crump & Low, T.B. Starr, F. Walter Lawrence, Udall
& Ballou, Marcus & Company, Black, Starr & Frost, Bailey, Banks & Biddle
Image from "A Master Sculptor in Precious Metals"
Arts & Decoration, January 1926
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