International studio (57.1915/1916)

Hand-Built Jewellery

subtle bounds. Examples of this are very strong
in some of the commissions executed for Julia
Marlowe.
Herbert Kelly is a master in intricate, delicate
workmanship. His productions are built up of
exquisitely chased leaves, petals, and other
forms. He has great skill in minute soldering.
His understanding of form is as perfect as his
feeling for the
bloom of delicate
petal. His life
is given over to
this great beauty
which we find in
his work.
Marie Zim¬
mermann is one
of the few who
introduces the
figure in her
jewellery. She is
one of the older
workers and has
produced, besides
jewellery, abronze
figure as a door
knocker, dragons
as lamp brackets,
etc. Much of her
work is first ex¬
ecuted by first
modelling in wax,
casting and work¬
ing the cast up to
a finished piece.
She is a fearless,
independent
worker.
Mr. Robert
Bulk, well known
as a teacher, has
a most thorough
knowledge of his
craft and may be
methods and technique. Carl H. Johonnot reaches
the last word in the combination of simple, beau-
tiful forms with perfect workmanship.
Jane Copeland has put into her enamels her
innermost self. They are the interpretation of
an old, Oriental soul in an entirely original form.
These enamels which she sets into her boxes are
crude and wonderful, made from her brain, not

by accident. She, also, gives her life to her work.
Horace Potter of Cleveland has an ideal arrange-
ment for carrying out his work. He has a house
where a number of workers live together and carry
out excellent pieces in jewellery and silverware.
In Minneapolis, there is Ida Pell Conklin, who
does splendid work, a master of her tools and of
her designs. All of her work shows her control, yet
it is free in spirit
and beauty. The
Elverhoj Colony
up the Hudson
has a number of
jewellery workers
who have gone in
for Flora Ameri-
cana designs, and
have produced in-
teresting floral
form.
If the writer
can be fortunate
enough to be
classed with this
group, it is only
because of Nature
having distilled
somewhat of itself
through her hand
to her magic
hammer.
These are some
of the many who
are doing con-
structive, serious
work, and who are
devoting their
lives to building in
plastic form their
ideals. Out from
this effort will
spring an Art deep
in significance,
of struggling to ex-
press something individual must realize that, to
be great, he must struggle to tell in his work
something universal, the big trend of the people,
and build up a great national jewellery that will
carry down to the future the history of our times.
Note: March issue will have an article by Mr.
Haswell C. Jeffrey on the exhibition of the Society.


TOURMELINE GOLD NECKLACE, DESIGNED AND EXECUTED
BY HERBERT KELLY

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