ABSTRACT
Brush and Pencil was the journal of the Chicago based Brush and Pencil Club. It was an illustrated review of American painting and sculpture and included some articles on the applied arts. American jewellery of the turn of the century was influenced by both the Arts and Crafts and the Art Nouveau styles. A brief anonymous review of modern jewellery in the Paris 1900 Exhibition concluded that the display of the Tiffany company ‘unite[s] the most valuable jewels, the largest diamonds, the rarest rubies and sapphires. It has often been said and deplored, that to painting and sculpture has unwarrantedly been arrogated the term “fine arts.” The modern workman splits and cuts his gems in to many faceted, geometrical forms of infinite ingenuity and intolerable hideousness. The most lamentable defects in modern jewelry – or the product of any other artistic craft, for that matter – arc deducible from present-day education.
