Beading & Jewelry - Freddie Baer

While Freddie was best-known for her widely-published collages, she was also known among her friends for her love of beading and making jewelry. Like her collage, she basically gave away her jewelry, either to friends or as donations for benefit auctions. She would thrift for beads, looking in particular for stone and vintage glass beads. “Isn’t that just fabulous?” she would say of some stunning, unusual vintage find.

We include below photographs of Freddie’s necklaces, but we would like photos of the many, many necklaces that are out in the world! So if you have a Freddie Baer necklace or other jewelry, please photograph it, tell its story, and share it with us at contact@freddiebaer.com.

Necklaces are labeled to enable us to keep photos of the same necklace together. Numbers (e.g., “Eureka necklace 1”) have no significance other than the order in which we numbered them — that is, the numbers have no connection whatsoever with when they were made, type of beads, or anything else.

Necklaces 1-9 (9 necklaces, 21 photos):

Necklaces 10-19 (10 necklaces, 22 photos):

Necklaces 20-29 (10 necklaces, 26 photos):

Necklaces 30-39 (10 necklaces, 23 photos):

Necklaces 40-49 (10 necklaces, 27 photos):

Necklaces 50-59 (10 necklaces, 26 photos):

Necklaces 60-69 (10 necklaces, 13 photos):

Eureka necklacke 62 (photo by Mary Retzinger)

Necklaces 70-79 (10 necklaces, 10 photos):

Eureka necklacke 70 (photo by Mary Retzinger)

Necklaces 80-89 (10 necklaces, 10 photos):

Eureka necklace 80 (photo by Mary Retzinger)

Necklaces 90-99 (10 necklaces, 10 photos):

Eureka necklace 90 (photo by Mary Retzinger)

Necklaces 100-109 (10 necklaces, 10 photos):

Eureka necklace 100 (photo by Mary Retzinger)

Necklaces 110-113 (4 necklaces, 4 photos):

Eureka necklace 110 (photo by Mary Retzinger)

From Personal Collections:

Choker made in the late 1990s. Collection of Laura Quilter (LQ 1)

A Drop of Raspberry (2009):

“A Drop of Raspberry” was based on A Drop of Raspberry by Csilla Kleinheincz, donated by Freddie to benefit the Interstitial Arts Foundation, at IAFauctions. The necklace is described on Flickr as:

Three strand necklace made with sterling silver wire and findings, nylon thread, with semi-precious gemstone beads of Aquamarine, Green Amethyst, Aventurine, Prehnite, and raspberry Rubies.

More necklaces & beading to come ….