The Art of Chess

3/6/2005 – From February 19 to June 5 the Fuller Craft Museum is exhibiting chess pieces made by 90 metalsmiths. It includes pelican bishops, two-faced queens, oil can kings and bean bag knights, with a total of over two hundred individual pieces. If you live within a hundred miles you will want to catch it. Sample photos.

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The Art of Chess

From February 19 to June 5 the Fuller Craft Museum is exhibiting chess unusual pieces. The museum is located in 455 Oak Street, Brockton, MA (USA). Admission is $5 adults; $3 seniors and students; free for members and children under 12.

The exhibition "Chess" includes pelican bishops, two-faced queens, oil can kings and bean bag knights, which are just some of the chess pieces created by ninety international metalsmiths and jewelry makers.

Over two hundred individual pieces, plus two complete chess sets, are on exhibit. International metalsmiths were invited to contribute pieces to the exhibition with the only requirements being that the chess pieces had to be recognizable (e.g., as pawn, king, knight, etc.) and meet size restrictions (4-10.5cm in height).

Several of the artists in Chess are master metalsmiths well known for their magnificent creations in miniature. Included are works by Linda Darty, Bob Ebendorf, Dorothy Hogg, Thomas Mann, Bruce Metcalf, Marjorie Schick and Joyce Scott as well as dozens of others representing ten countries. Chess was organized by the Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco.

Picture left: Hilary Pfiefer, Queen, wood, hair, aluminum, paint.