Grace Hazen
Grace Hazen (1874-1940) was an American jewelry designer who founded the Hazen Crafts School at Rocky Neck, East Gloucester, Massachusetts.[1] She specialized in hand-wrought jewelry.[2]
Early life[edit]
Grace Hazen was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1874.[1] As a child, she learned carpentry skills and studied wood carving with William H. Fry.[3]
Education[edit]
She studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York[4] and the Chase School of Art in New York.[1]
Career[edit]
In the 1910s, Hazen gave lessons in jewelry design from her studio in the National Arts Club, New York.[5] Following her studies, Hazen established a workshop in Tyringham, MA where she began producing hand-wrought jewelry.[3] In 1916, she was awarded the life membership prize by the National Society of Craftsmen.[6] She was on the executive board of the National Society of Craftsmen and president of the Metal Workers Guild.[3] She was a member of the National Arts Club.[1] Hazen died on in 1940 in Summit, New Jersey at the age of 65.[1]
Her work is represented in the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e "Grace Hazen". The New York Times. 1940-03-05. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
- ^ Leuck, Miriam Simons (May 1, 1929). "Women in Odd and Unusual Fields of Work". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 143 (1): 176. doi:10.1177/000271622914300119. S2CID 145370843.
- ^ a b c "Acute Handicraft of a Woman". The Boston Globe. December 17, 1911. p. 8.
- ^ Foster, Isabel (October 1925). "She Speaks in Gold". The Woman Citizen. 10 (7): 16, 39–40.
- ^ Greenbaum, Toni; Kirkham, Pat (2002). "Women Jewelry Designers". In Kirkham, Pat (ed.). Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 204.
- ^ Jenkins, Sandra Giles (2009). The National Society of Craftsmen, New York, New York (1906-1920) & the New York Society of Craftsmen (1920-1957): A Craft Continuum from the Arts and Crafts Movement to the Studio Craft Movement. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Associates and Corcoran College of Art + Design. pp. 25–26.
- ^ "Grace Hazen | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum". collection.cooperhewitt.org. Retrieved 2020-12-30.