The Jewelry of Ken Cory, First Edition out of print Art Book, Contemporary Jewelry Artist Metal orders Smith

orders An out of print, first edition by an amazing innovative Jewelry artist, Ken Corey, from the Pacific Northwest.

Titled “ Play Disguised “, as his small sculptural pieces had a wonderful child- like quality by using Sterling Silver and found objects.

Humor and skill as a Jeweler combined to make Ken Cory a ground breaking artist, his work shown in Art Galleries from the Smithsonian to The Seattle Art Museum

Ken Cory died at 50 from complications of diabetes in 1994.

This book is a compilation of his story, along with colored photos of his work and of his contemporaries and friends.

It also contains hand drawn pictures taken from his many journals.

Published for an exhibition that showed at the Tacoma Art Museum in 1997, and contains 135 readable pages with beautiful jewelry on almost every page.

First edition published Nov 1st 1997
University of Washington Press

Measures 6 1/2 inches X 91/2 inches

No markings or writing.

Please note:

On front and back of book page there are cut out hearts that show the next page in opening.

On the back page the heart cut out has a small 1/4 inch tear ( shown) on the outside back cover it isn't as noticeable.

I've shown both inside and outside for reference.