Bob Winston (jeweler)
American artist, jeweler (1915–2003)
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Charles Robert Winston (1915 – 2003) was an American jeweler, sculptor, and educator.[1] He was known for his organic forms and sculptural jewelry in 1950s and 1960s.[2] Winston was a co-founder of the Metal Arts Guild of San Francisco,[1] a non-profit, arts educational organization.[3] In 1997, he was honored as a Fellow of the American Craft Council.[1]
April 5, 1915
Biography
Winston taught at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) from c. 1942 to 1956.[4] His students included Florence Resnikoff, Irena Brynner, and Robert Dhaemers.[4] He has been credited with reviving (within the period of 1950s Modernism) the metalsmith processes of lost-wax casting, and centrifugal casting.[2]
In 1951, he was featured on the television program "Art in Your Life" by the San Francisco Art Museum (now San Francisco Museum of Modern Art),[1] where he described his mobile sculpture making process.[5] Winston created public play sculpture named, "Oakland Monster" or "Mid Century Monster" (1952) at Lake Merritt near Bellevue Avenue in Oakland.[6][7]
Winston died on April 9, 2003, and was remembered by SFGate as "a consummate Bay Area jewelry designer, sculptor, instructor, and author."[1]
Exhibitions
In 1954, Winston was part of a group exhibition of jewelry at Gallery of America House by the American Craftsmen's Educational Council in New York City; other participants included Margaret De Patta, Mary Schimpff, Robert von Neumann, and John Paul Miller.[8] In 1985, he was part of the group exhibition, Structure and Ornament: American Modernist Jewelry 1940–1960 shown at Fifty-50 Gallery, New York City.[9]