Lost-Wax Casting

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The lost-wax casting method creates a single unique image, as opposed to one that is cast from a mold of an existing image. Sculptors mold images out of wax comprised of a mixture of beeswax and tree resin. Once the wax is fully molded into the key pieces of the final sculpture, it is placed in cold water to harden. The pieces of wax are joined after being reheated and connected with tubular struts.

The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection

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When a museum is offered a collection of outstanding art objects, and the donor stipulates that they should be kept together and displayed as a single group rather than be allowed to mix with the rest of the museum’s collections, the institution faces a difficult problem. Professional opinions remain divided within the museum world regarding whether gifts should be accepted with particular sets of requirements.

The Jewel Stern American Silver Collection

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In the summer of 2002, the Dallas Museum of Art acquired the most important private collection of 20th century American silver in existence: The Jewel Stern American Silver Collection. Assembled over a twenty-year period by one of the foremost scholars in the field, the Stern Collection consists of over three hundred pieces of industrially produced American silver. Dating from 1925 to 2000, the collection is unique in covering the entire period from the birth of American industrial design to the present.

Otto Künzli (b. 1948)

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Swiss designer Otto Künzli was born in Zurich. He studied at the Hoch-schule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich in the Department of Jewelry from 1965 to 1970. Afterward, he moved to Munich, Germany, where he studied under Hermann Jünger at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste from 1972 to 1978.
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