Three art shows look at jewelry past and present

If the early-20th-century jewelry artists of "Boston Made: Arts and Crafts Jewelry and Metalwork" at the Museum of Fine Arts could see "Uneasy Beauty: Discomfort in Contemporary Adornment" at the Fuller Craft Museum and "Adorning Boston and Beyond: Contemporary Studio Jewelry Then + Now" at the Society of Arts + Crafts, they might get the vapors The society promoted a vital community for jewelry artists such as Hale Jewelry design changed more gradually than clothing fashion, but Oakes leaned into a 1920s style with his tasseled necklace suited to the looser dresses of the day.

In the fall of 1929, he had just completed his masterwork, a silver jewelry box adorned with amethyst, pearl, and onyx, when the stock market crashed Curator Heather White, a jewelry professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, devotes an informative section to modern artists such as Alexander Calder, Fred Woell, and Miye Matsukata, although with only a spare handful of jewels William Morris had insisted that a jewelry artist craft his or her own work.

Frank Gardner Hale would raise his eyebrows - where has the glitter gone? But I like to think Hale, who saw a world change before he died in 1945, would have appreciated that jewelry could express society's shadows with as much verve as it extolled its sparkle. . Source