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High-Grade Red Mountain Turquoise Beaded Necklace by Bruce Eckhardt

$14,000
£10,594.39
€12,218.65
CA$19,550.03
A$21,902.35
CHF 11,400.15
MX$266,728.69
NOK 145,222.74
SEK 136,758.85
DKK 91,210.69
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Bruce Eckhardt large hand cut and polished High-Grade Red Mountain Turquoise beads. Each large turquoise is interspaced with smaller turquoise beads. The necklace is 20.5” long. Red Mountain is located in Lander County, Nevada. The turquoise is known for both the high quantity of small high-grade nuggets and the beautiful dark blue spider web of its best grades. Red Mountains finest is a hard compact spider web. It is equal to any of the classic turquoise mines such as Number Eight, Lone Mountain or Lander Blue. About the Artist Bruce Eckhardt was raised in Arizona and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His jewelry has been shown in the Southwest, and across the United States, as well as in collections in Europe, and Asia for over 30 years. He creates unmistakable jewelry and is known as a consummate lapidary artist, jewelry artist, and all around rock-hound. One look at Bruce Eckhardt’s jewelry and you’d think he was born making beads. Yet for Bruce Eckhardt, his career in jewelry-making came about by way of his passion for painting. Eckhardt studied with a Navajo painter at Prescott College in the early 70’s who created a student exchange program with the American Institute of Indian Arts IAIA in Santa Fe. As part of his student exchange, Eckhardt worked in the studio/classroom of Allan Houser – the well-known stone sculptor. During this time Eckhardt realized he loved the feel of stone—the density, resilience, and sense of eternity in the material, yet he still loved the bright colors of the paint he was used to working with. Those stones of bright, vivid colors turned out to be gemstones. Over the years many other teachers including Charles Lavato from Santa Domingo Pueblo inspired Eckhardt; and taught Bruce how to roll beads. With the help of his talented teachers, Eckhardt developed and honed his own unique talent and signature style. He strives in his jewelry “to paint” with stone by capturing color and volume. It has been an evolution of many years work but ART is often like that, he says; “It becomes itself, in spite of itself.” Today, Bruce Eckhardt’s jewelry is a marriage of his love for the feel of stone and bright colors in his paintings. Eckhardt chooses rare, high-grade stones to create his stunning pieces, which highlight the inherent beauty of the materials he uses while offering customers a piece that feels utterly close to nature. He uses only the highest quality stones in his jewelry, and has an amazing eye for style and jewelry design. Eckhardt states: “Bigger beads create a stunning look.”
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    Bruce Eckhardt
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    Scottsdale, AZ
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    1stDibs: LU3703226467992

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