MARK MCDONALD

During the last 30 years Mark has provided appraisal services for many leading collectors and museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Musee des Arts Decoratifs de Montreal, The Victoria and Albert Museum, and The Vitra Museum of Design... The Fifty/50 collection of mid-century studio jewelry was purchased by the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts in 1993, who mounted a traveling exhibition and published the ground-breaking book on the movement, Messengers of Modernism. Mark's interest in the jewelers of the studio jewelry movement led to his involvement with the estates of Art Smith and Claire Falkenstein, and the families of Margaret DePatta, Ed Wiener, and Sam Kramer. His relationship with the Art Smith estate facilitated a major donation of masterworks from the artist's Greenwich village store to the Brooklyn Museum in 2008. This donation was celebrated by the Brooklyn Museum with a..

Also known as: Mark McDonald Ltd