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  • Description
    ALBERT PALEY (born 1944)
    Ring, 1970
    Cast and fabricated gold with gypsy-set labradorite
    Stamped inside band: PALEY / 14K


    LITERATURE

    Edward Lucie-Smith, The Art of Albert Paley, Iron & Bronze & Steel, 1996, page 186, #110, illustrated



    Seeking to transform the jeweler's art, Albert Paley reinvented every aspect of the traditional pendant, necklace, or brooch, in order to highlight the relationship of the piece to the body. The most advanced of these "wearable sculptures" recapitulate and reinforce bodily structure and movement.

    Paley was a highly successful jewelry artist in 1974 when he won the Renwick Gallery's national design competition and was awarded the commission to design decorative metalwork doors for the gallery shop. His Portal Gates opened the door to a new career for Paley, leading to numerous commissions and world renown for his monumental architectural ironwork and sculpture. Paley's ironwork pays homage to European art nouveau and American abstract expressionism.

    Albert Paley, an active artist for over forty years at his studio in Rochester, New York, is the first metal sculptor to receive the coveted Institute Honors awarded by the American Institute of Architects, the Institutes highest award to a non-architect. “The allure of Paley’s art comes through its intrinsic sense of integration of art and architecture,” as one noted architect stated. Paley, Distinguished Professor, holds an Endowed Chair at the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

    Commissioned by both public institutions and private corporations, Paley has completed more than fifty site-specific works. Some notable examples are the Portal Gates for the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, Synergy, a ceremonial archway in Philadelphia, the Portal Gates for the New York State Senate Chambers in Albany, Sentinel, a monumental plaza sculpture for Rochester Institute of Technology, as well as a sixty-five foot sculpture for the entry court of Bausch and Lomb’s headquarters in Rochester, New York. Recently completed works include three sculptures for the National Harbor development near Washington DC, a one hundred and thirty foot long archway titled Animals Always for the St. Louis Zoo, a gate for the Cleveland Botanical Gardens in Cleveland, Ohio, a sculptural relief for Wellington Place, Toronto, Canada, Threshold, a sculpture for the Corporate Headquarters of Klein Steel, Rochester, New York, and Transformation, a ceremonial entranceway for Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.

    Pieces by Albert Paley can be found in the permanent collections of many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

    Broadly published and an international lecturer, Paley received both his BFA and MFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Rochester in 1989, the State University of New York at Brockport in 1996, St. Lawrence University, in Canton, New York in 1997, and the University of Gothenburg, in Sweden in 2012.




    COLLECTIONS:

    American Craft Museum, New York, New York
    Arkansas Arts Center Foundation, Little Rock, Arkansas
    Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
    The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
    The British Museum, London, England
    The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
    Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
    The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
    Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
    Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
    Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
    The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, England
    Gannett Publishing Corporation, Washington, DC
    Grace Episcopal Church, Scottsville, New York
    High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
    Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
    Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford
    University, California
    Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York
    The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis Tennessee
    Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
    Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, Minnesota
    Mint Museum of Craft and Design
    Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
    Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
    The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas
    The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
    Philadelphia Archdiocese, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
    Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
    Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
    Strong Museum, Rochester, New York
    Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
    University of Illinois, Normal, Illinois
    Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
    The White House, Washington, D.C.
    Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
    Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
  • More Information
    Origin: United States, New York
    Period: 1950-1999
    Materials: Cast and fabricated gold with gypsy-set labradorite
    Condition: Excellent.
    Creation Date: 1970
    Gemstones: Labradorite
    Metals: Gold
    Gender: Ladies'
    Styles / Movements: Artist Jewelry, Signed Pieces, Fine Jewelry
    Book References: Edward Lucie-Smith, The Art of Albert Paley, Iron & Bronze & Steel, 1996, page 186, #110, illustrated.
    Incollect Reference #: 185064
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