"Spray"

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This is the "Spray" bracelet cuff created by Art Smith; designed circa 1940s-1950s and made between 1946 and 1979. The thin cuff has abstract ends with flattened branch-like rods tipped with various sized, slightly raised domes. One end is tipped with a dome and two sets of offshoot “branches,” with a total of four branches. The other end has two sets of offshoot branches with a total of nine branches. These branches and domes resemble a splatter or “spray” of the metal. The cuff has two hallmarks, one on the inside of a two-branch off shoot, stamped with Smith’s signature [Art Smith] and the second on the back of one of the smallest branches [STERLING].

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