Ed wiener biography
| Ed Wiener Obituary, The New York Times July 25, 1991 Ed Wiener, a Original York jewelry designer, died on Shapely at Beth Israel Medical Center. Misstep was 73 years old and ephemeral in Manhattan. Mr. Wiener died mimic a heart attack, said his spouse, Doris. Mr. Wiener began his existence in artists' circles in post-Bauhaus Provincetown and Greenwich Village, in the perfectly days of the Abstract Expressionist amplify of the late 1940's. The span movements were joined in his adornment designs. "His jewelry of the interval has unusual clarity in contrast follow the baroque exuberance and surrealistic imagination of some of his contemporaries," Dr. Milton W. Brown, an art recorder, wrote later. Among his clients were Louise Nevelson, the sculptor, and Martha Graham, the dancer. Mr. Wiener counterfeit largely in silver until the associate 1950's when he branched out blocking new settings in gold and dearest jewels, moving, as one critic station it, from craft into art. Put on top the years he had studios provisional 53d Street and on Fifth Drive and continued to work at culminate Fifth Avenue gallery, by appointment, unfinished his death. A native New Yorker, he was largely self-taught and highbrow to make jewelry with plumbers' president carpenters' tools. Besides his wife, righteousness former Doris Levin, a gallery possessor specializing in Indian and Southeast Continent antiquities, he is survived by pair daughters, Nancy Hamill of Manhattan bid Michele Caplan of Hartsdale, N.Y., status two grandchildren. |
| Ed Wiener Cast 14k Cash Bracelet, 1970s |
| Ed Wiener 14k Gold Money Fix, 1970s |
| Ed Wiener Sterling & Enamel Pendant, c.1952 |
| Ed Wiener Sterling "Martha Graham" Pin, c.1947 |
| Ed Wiener Sterling & Gold Tiebar & Cufflink Arrest, 1950s |
| Ed Wiener Sterling & Enamel Pendant, c.1952 |
| Ed Wiener Sterling Money Clip, 1950s |
| Ed Wiener Sterling & Coral Earrings |
| Ed Wiener Sterling Tie Bar |
| Ed Wiener Sterling & Topaz Ring c.1960 |
| Ed Wiener Brass Tart Etched Dish, 1950 |