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William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Renaissance: Maestros de Plata

William Spratling revolutionized silver jewelry design in Mexico. Arriving in Taxco in 1929, by 1940 he had over 100 silversmiths producing his enormously popular silver creations. Important figures of the North American literary and art establishment, among them John dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Georgia O'Keeffe, purchased his designs and sang his praises. Out of Spratling's workshop emerged many of Mexico's finest silver designers, including Héctor Aguilar, Antonio Castillo and his brothers Jorge and Justo, Salvador Terán, and Antonio Pineda. Today their striking jewelry and hollowware in silver-often set with precious stones and pre-Columbian artifacts-are prized collectibles. This book tells the story of the legendary designer and of seven decades of the silversmith's art in Mexico. With its elegant photographs and an invaluable appendix of hallmarks, this volume-which accompanies a traveling exhibition that will draw new attention to Spratling's silver designs-will appeal to collectors, dealers, scholars, and everyone who enjoys beautiful jewelry.

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Starring Frankie Howerd, Bill Fraser, William Mervyn, Linda Gray, Jonathan Cecil, Madeline Smith, Nicholas Bennett, Mike Grady, Dora Byran, Stanley Holloway, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Bob Hoskins, Lance Percival, Patricia Quinn and Robert Coote. Poor old Frankie Ho

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Spratling Silver: A Field Guide : Recognizing a William Spratling Treasure

This definitive volume on the work of William Spratling contains all hallmark information both in text and easy to follow charts as well as specific information for each of Spratling's three design periods including design elements, materials used, construction, and more. Learn to recognize Spratling's work and learn how to distinguish between the authentic as compared to the copy. Three detailed appendices allow the reader to find photos of specific objects by design element (stars, jaguars, applied discs, etc.) material (amethyst, obsidian, tortoise shell, etc.) or item (bracelet, pin, coffee pot, etc.) Extensive reference list, care of Spratling silver, and much additional information. More than 500 photos. Full color.

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The Silver Gringo: William Spratling and Taxco

This book is the story of William Spratling, remembered most for his design work in silver, and his life in Taxco, Mexico, where he lived from 1929 until his death in 1967. Spratling was an artist, architect, writer, bon vivant, and passionate collector of Mexican folk art and archaeological artifacts. His friends included William Faulkner, Diego Rivera, Miguel Covarrubias, and many writers, artists, actors, and other famous and infamous people who pass through the pages of this lively book. In 1929 Spratling left the French Quarter in New Orleans and bought a house in Taxco, a small mining town in the Sierra Madre south of Mexico City. Within five years he had written a classic book about the town, Little Mexico, and founded a business in the hand production of silver jewelry that would make him a rich man, at least briefly, and Taxco famous. He drew other artistic expatriates to Taxco until it became a cluster of creative people like that around Gertrude Stein in Paris or Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos. Illustrated with photographs of his silver work and his gallery as well as Spratling's own drawings, this book is the first to look at all aspects of Spratling's life and career and show what an extraordinary and multitalented man he was.

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William Spratling

THIS 15 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Hundred-Point-Men: Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings Part 10, by Elbert Hubbard. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766103943.

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