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Brooch
Robert W. Ebendorf (American, born in 1938)
1968
Object Place: Athens, Georgia
Medium/Technique
Tin, paper, copper, old coin, steel
Dimensions
Overall: 26.7 x 6 x 1.3 cm, 36.5 gm (10 1/2 x 2 3/8 x 1/2 in., 0.1 lb.)
Credit Line
The Daphne Farago Collection
Accession Number2006.154
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Contemporary Art, Americas
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Brooches
DescriptionPhoto of man mounted on tin can lid with steel shoe cap placed over his head, the whole edged in bent copper; an 1888 coin is suspended from the can lid's pull tab.
Signed
" R EBENDORF 1968"
ProvenanceRobert Ebendorf; Daphne Farago, April 4, 2001 Daphne Farago; to MFA, 2006, gift of Daphne Farago.
CopyrightReproduced with permission.