TWENTIETH CENTURY JEWELRY ON VIEW AT MFA, BOSTON MAY 22AVV 4-9 #695491

BOSTON, MASS. — The MFA, Boston, will present the exhibition, “Jewelry by Artists: The Daphne Farago Collection,” May 22–March 5 in the Early Twentieth Century American Gallery.

This exhibition will present highlights from Daphne Farago’s collection of contemporary jewelry, which was given to the MFA in 2006. The collection comprises more than 600 works of jewelry by leading American and European artists, ranging in date from about 1940 to the present, in a wide variety of media and sculptural forms.

With this gift, the MFA now holds the most comprehensive collection of Twentieth Century studio jewelry ever assembled. The exhibition will include a selection of about 150 to 200 objects, and will provide a chronological survey of studio jewelry in the Twentieth Century.

While demonstrating the breadth of the collection and the variety of artists’ approaches to jewelry-making, the show will also represent key artists in depth, including Alexander Calder, Art Smith, Sam Kramer, Robert Ebendorf, William Harper, Wendy Ramshaw and Mary Lee Hu.

The museum is at 465 Huntington Avenue. For more information, www.mfa.org or 617-267-9300.