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by Linda Dyer | photography by Jerry Atnip

Mary Marguerite Porter Zwicker (Canadian, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1904–1993), view of Nova Scotia fishing shacks, watercolor over print on paper, signed “M. Zwicker” in block.

As I struggled in…

07.30.2010 | ANTIQUES, JEWELRY

Spotlight | Auction to Support Finer Things Gallery

Spotlight | Auction to Support Finer Things Gallery

The owners of Finer Things Gallery, Kim Brooks and Rusty Wolfe, lost almost everything in the historic Nashville flood. Their home, studio, workshop, and outside sculpture garden were all destroyed. Several member galleries of the Nashville Association of Art Dealers…

06.29.2010 | ANTIQUES, EVENTS, JEWELRY, NEWS, SCULPTURE, SPOTLIGHT

Spotlight | Temple Arts Festival

Spotlight | Temple Arts Festival

If you love spending a weekend afternoon viewing beautiful art that you can also take home, you won’t want to miss the wonderful variety of art and handcrafted works on display during the Temple Arts Festival (TAF) in Nashville the weekend of…

03.31.2010 | ANTIQUES, DRAWING, EVENTS, JEWELRY, PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY, SCULPTURE, SPOTLIGHT, VISUAL ART

Spotlight | Atelier Minyon

Spotlight | Atelier Minyon

Atelier minyon is a turkish- and New york-based jewelry design

house that will premiere their newest collections here in Nashville at

Cindi Earl Fine Jewelry April 8, 5–8 p.m. Atelier Minyon’s creations

meld the romantic history…

03.31.2010 | JEWELRY, SCULPTURE, SPOTLIGHT

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by Linda Dyer | photography by Jerry Atnip

Native American Woman’s Belt with Pouch.

Northern Plains, Santee Sioux, Reservation Period circa 1920s.

Composed of glass beads, trade cloth, and native tanned hide.
This panel belt with matching pouch is…

03.31.2010 | ANTIQUES, JEWELRY, SCULPTURE, VISUAL ART

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Clayton Sumner Price (American, 1874-1950) The Rider, oil on board, signed C. S. Price

Price grew up in a large ranching family in Iowa and Wyoming. An accomplished carpenter, homesteader and horseman, C. S. Price was 31 years old…

02.3.2010 | ANTIQUES, JEWELRY, NEWS, VISUAL ART

Margaret Ellis | Can’t Buy Me Love

Margaret Ellis | Can’t Buy Me Love

Love is an intangible. Often characterized as a gentle, soft emotion, it is strong enough to break the most sturdy of hearts. It is, nonetheless, invisible.

Perhaps this is why we turn to tokens…

02.2.2010 | JEWELRY, PEOPLE, VISUAL ART

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Pyrite and Silver “Bow” pin, circa 1930
Nice vintage “marcasite” pin, well-marked and identified “sterling” “Germany.”

Pyrite and marcasite have almost identical physical properties, making it difficult to distinguish them apart unless you are a mineralogist. Adding to the confusion…

11.4.2009 | ANTIQUES, JEWELRY

Jingle, Jangle, Jewelry

Jingle, Jangle, Jewelry

“Great design is great design whether it’s a building or a painting or a piece of jewelry.”                  – Cindi Earl

Get ready to be charmed! In the following pages Nashville Arts Magazine features five local jewelers, each with a…

11.4.2009 | JEWELRY