Versatile and timeless 14kt gold earrings with turquoise, jet, lapis and natural opal by Hopi/French artist Charles Supplee (1959-2021) Signed by the artist and marked for metal content.
Measures: 3/8" x 1/2"
Weighs: 3 grams each
Charles Supplee was one of the greatest jewelers and artists of his generation—a master not only of contemporary Hopi jewelry but of color theory, which he commanded with rare sophistication, and a multi-talented artist who moved fluidly across mediums, from pottery and sculpture to painting. Born in Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1959 to a Hopi mother and a French father, he grew up on the Navajo reservation, where his father taught school. It was his father—a jeweler by hobby—who first taught Charles to work in silver at home, planting the seed of a remarkable career. (Faust Gallery)