DOI Heft:
No. 206 (May, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20969#0341
Studio- Talk
“ PHANTASY ”
EMBROIDERED BY FLORENCE JESSIE HOSEL
She produces with the facility of real genius. New
motifs, unseen colour-combinations, blossom forth
continually under her hand. She scatters them
lavishly over cushions, insertions and covers. But
lately her fervour has only been satisfied by exten-
sive wall-hangings. She is not content to embroider
impressions of nature around her from the pine
woods of the Grunewald near
Berlin, but she has revelations
of her own in which fairy tales
and dreams strangely blend
with naturalistic forms and
landscape reminiscences.
Such subjects she considers
fit for the contents of wall-
hangings. She invents stitches
and applications, prepares and
mixes her own colours, and
embroiders her frescoes quite
intuitively, without previous
sketching. Jessie Hosel, in
whom our leading craftsmen
are deeply interested, is a
woman who quite deserves
the honours of high art.
humanity and scenery, the whole organism of un-
paralled vitality, were disappointed. What one
saw savoured more of the London Royal Academy,
or, to some extent, of the Palis Salons. We were
also reminded of Old Holland, Dusseldorf and
Fontainebleau, and breathed an atmosphere of
gentleness, refinement and puritanic reserve. Land-
The exhibition of American
paintings at the Royal Aca-
demy of Arts left no doubt
as to the production of good
pictures in America, but evi-
dence was lacking of the exist-
ence of a home-grown art.
Those who expected to see
therein a reflection of the
race of beautiful, self-sure
women and iron willed men,
the country of contrasts in
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EMBROIDERED BY FLORENCE JESSIE HOSEL
“ PHANTASY ”
EMBROIDERED BY FLORENCE JESSIE HOSEL
She produces with the facility of real genius. New
motifs, unseen colour-combinations, blossom forth
continually under her hand. She scatters them
lavishly over cushions, insertions and covers. But
lately her fervour has only been satisfied by exten-
sive wall-hangings. She is not content to embroider
impressions of nature around her from the pine
woods of the Grunewald near
Berlin, but she has revelations
of her own in which fairy tales
and dreams strangely blend
with naturalistic forms and
landscape reminiscences.
Such subjects she considers
fit for the contents of wall-
hangings. She invents stitches
and applications, prepares and
mixes her own colours, and
embroiders her frescoes quite
intuitively, without previous
sketching. Jessie Hosel, in
whom our leading craftsmen
are deeply interested, is a
woman who quite deserves
the honours of high art.
humanity and scenery, the whole organism of un-
paralled vitality, were disappointed. What one
saw savoured more of the London Royal Academy,
or, to some extent, of the Palis Salons. We were
also reminded of Old Holland, Dusseldorf and
Fontainebleau, and breathed an atmosphere of
gentleness, refinement and puritanic reserve. Land-
The exhibition of American
paintings at the Royal Aca-
demy of Arts left no doubt
as to the production of good
pictures in America, but evi-
dence was lacking of the exist-
ence of a home-grown art.
Those who expected to see
therein a reflection of the
race of beautiful, self-sure
women and iron willed men,
the country of contrasts in
316
EMBROIDERED BY FLORENCE JESSIE HOSEL