Hilda Kraus
American artist, jeweler, enamellist, and metal work designer, 1915–2014
Hilda Kraus was a long-time resident of Westport, Connecticut and taught at the Silvermine Arts Center, the Brookfield Craft Center, and the Stamford Museum. In 1946, her work was featured in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art called Modern Handmade Jewelry, one of the earliest and most influential jewelry exhibitions in the postwar period. She was also awarded a purchase prize in the seminal exhibition Enamels ’70 organized by the Craft Alliance of St. Louis. Her work is in the collections of the Delaware Art Museum, Everson Museum of Art, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
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American goldsmith, designer, and modernist metal sculptor, born 1944
American painter, sculptor, and jeweler, born 1942
Scottish painter and decorative artist, 1852–1936
