DESIGN QUARTERLY 45 – 46
American Jewelry
Meg Torbert [Editor], John Sutherland [Designer]
Meg Torbert [Editor], John Sutherland [Designer]: DESIGN QUARTERLY. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, Numbers 45 –46, 1959. Original edition. Quarto. Thick photo illustrated perfect bound wrappers. 66 pp. 158 black and white images. Short biographies and addresses. A very influential publication and quite uncommon. Wrappers lightly worn, but a very good copy.
8.5 x 11 softcover magazine with 66 pages and 158 black and white images of American Studio Jewelry, circa 1959, along with short biographies and addresses for the designers and artisans.
Includes black and white jewelry samples by Helen Scheir Adelman, Gregory P. Bacopoulos, Mildred Lee Ball, Jane Beckman, Mark Bohrod, Frances Holmes Boothby, Michael J. Brandt, Jr., Howard & Juanita Brown, Irena Brynner, Eleanor Caldwell, Shirley Lege Carpenter, Maxwell Chayat, Betty Cooke, Russell E. Day, Margaret De Patta, Andrew & Muriel Dey, Robert Daehmers, John Dickerhoff, Virginia Dudley, Roger D. Easton, Alma Eikerman, Lane Elkins, Gudmund Jon Elvestad, Robert & Audrey Engstrom, Lester Fader, Elsa Freund, Richard C. Gompf, George Green, William George Haendel, Wiltz Harrison, David P. Hatch, Ray Hein, Cliff Herrold, Adda Husted-Andersen, Michael Jerry, Earl F. Kittelson, Sam Kramer, Earl Krentzin, Mary Kretsinger, Frederick Lauritzen, Bob McCabe, Lee & Peg McCarty, Lawrence McKinin, Ernest D. Mahlke, John Paul Miller, Joseph S. Moran, Philip Morton, Rosemary O’Bryan, Ronald Hayes Pearson, Miriam Smith Peck, Coralynn Pence, Ruth Pennington, Daniel & Nell Peterson, Angela Petesch, Alvin Pine, Arthur L. & Dorothy B. Price, John Prip, E. Dane Purdo, Svetozar & Ruth Radakovich, Merry Renk, Maria Regnier, Florence Resnikoff, Walter Rhodes, Ruth Roach, Nancy Sherwood, Mary Schimpff, Christian F. Schmidt, Richard H. Schanke, Jan Smith, Francis Stephen, Jean Sterne, Bernice A. Stevens, David Suits, John Szymak, Richard G. Thiel, Donald Tompkins, Arthur A. Vierthaler, Robert Von Neumann, Kay White, Marjorie Mcilroy Wildenhain, Byron Wilson, Bob Winston, Donald B. Wright, Ernest Ziegfeld, and Alice E. Zimmerman.
This issue of Design Quarterly remains a primary reference for Modern American Jewelry and it's artisans. Art Smith credited an earlier 1948 Walker Art Center show with drawing national attention to his work and making it possible for him to sell his pieces in several craft shops across the country in addition to his own store in New York. The magazine contains 158 photographs culled from a national call for entries, short biographies and contact information for the participating artists.
Everyday Art Quarterly was published by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis starting in 1946. The editorial focus aimed to bring modern design to the masses through thoughtful examination of household objects and their designers. Everyday Art Quarterly was a vocal proponent of the Good Design movement (as represented by MoMA and Chicago's Merchandise Mart) and spotlighted the best in industrial and handcrafted design. When the magazine became Design Quarterly in 1954, the editors assumed a more international flair in their selection of material to spotlight.