International studio (60.1916/1917)

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GOLD AND OPAL NECKLACE: “ OF THE SEA ”
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY GRACE HAZEN

successful endeavour to fix the picturesque charms
of Moscow on the copperplate may be the prelude
to a whole series of such prints. P. E.
NEW YORK. — Miss Grace Hazen,
examples of whose work are here re-
produced, is one of the acknowledged
leaders in craftsmanship in the United


RING SET WITH MEXICAN OPAL
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY
GRACE HAZEN


years we have had

States, and through the jewellery which she designs
and makes has offered a worthy addition to
American art. Her conceptions, while obeying
the laws of line, form and balance, are modern

NECKLACE SET WITH OPALS AND DIAMONDS AND RED ENAMEL :
“THE SPIRIT OF I9I5 ”
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY GRACE HAZEN

and wholly individual woodcuts of Mme. Lebedev-
Ostroumova and the effective etchings of A. Fomin,
against which picturesque Moscow has nothing of
equal value to set. In recent
only the linoleographs of
I. Pavlov—interesting bits
of old Moscow-—but these
are not of great artistic
worth. One of the first
attempts to reproduce
views of Moscow in the
noble technique of etching
is the plate of I. Nivinski,
representing a portion of
the Kremlin panorama, of
which an illustration is here
given. Nivinski is one of
the younger generation of
Moscow painters, and as an
etcher also he has by his
mature technique attracted
attention. Besides figure
compositions he has hither¬
to only shown Italian views,
and it is to be hoped that
his first and completely

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