Artist

David LaPlantz

born Toledo, OH 1944
Media - portrait_image_113409.jpg - 90246
Courtesy David LaPlantz.
Born
Toledo, Ohio, United States
Active in
  • Bayside, California, United States
  • Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Biography

David LaPlantz went to school for metalworking, but did not begin making jewelry until a knee operation left him immobilized. Most of his pieces only take a few hours to complete, and are spontaneously designed. In the 1980s, LaPlantz taught thirty hours a week at Humboldt State University, and was still able to make hundreds of pieces of jewelry in a year.

Works by this artist (1 item)

Ray Growler, Billy Goat, ca. 1990, mixed media: carved wood with horns, wool, hide, and plastic, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1997.124.63
Billy Goat
Artist
Dateca. 1990
mixed media: carved wood with horns, wool, hide, and plastic
Not on view