Laurel Burch Wild Dog SIGNED Vintage Pin

Vintage LAUREL BURCH "WILD DOG" Enamel Brooch measures 1 5/8" wide by 1 1/2" high. Shiny gold, purple, and red Length: 1 1/2 Inches Width: 1 1/4 Inches It is named “Night Dog” and signed on the back. Laurel Burch went on to launch her business, now called Laurel Burch Artworks, on February 24, 1960. She began making paintings commissioned by restaurants, businesses, and private collectors. "I found metal in a junkyard and hammered it out on the back of an old frying pan." She began making jewelry and selling it on the streets of San Francisco from tackle boxes. Some local stores began stocking her creations, and a businessman, Shashi Singapuri, took samples of her work to China. She went to China in 1971 and discovered cloisonné, a kind of enamel work, with which she designed paintings and had the designs made into earrings. The piece’s inspiration: DOG TALES “My dogs Matisse, Basso, and Dakota have licked the sweet, salty tears of my most joyous and painful occasions. In my paintings they appear (as your dogs do!) as their rainbow spirits would surely express themselves— in red and magenta, purple and teal!” Inspired by her passion for our faithful companions, Laurel’s wildly colorful paintings of exuberant canines sitting, sleeping, leaping, frolicking, and dancing in a bright spectrum of colors and patterns have captured the hearts of dog lovers everywhere. Tags: Cloisonné Art Jewelry Signed pooch Pup Collector