The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-23
A WOMAN sILVERsMuTH.
A Chicago Genius who Is an Author,
Painter and Worker in Metals.


Chicago, April 21.-Fancy being able to
go to your own forge and create miracles
in gold, silver and enamel jewelry TO match
any scheme of color you choose to wear?
This Is exactly what Mrs. Madeline Yale
Wynne can do. You should see her won
derfully picturesque effects in filmy ORR
entail or irridescent textiles, set off by
buckles, brooches, buttons, girdles, hair
ornaments ETC., of her own design and
manufacture, and this is but the alphabet
of her metal work, for il embraces lamp
shades, sconces, boxes, ladies, spoons.
tankards, bowls, trays-in fact, anything
and everything that was ever made of
gold silver, copper or brass. Indeed,
doubt If since the days of Benvenuto Gel
lini any one has brought such love of
handicraft, such a passion for creation
and such individuality of expression into
metal work.
She is without doubt the only woman
silversmith in the world. There are a
few clever women designers of jewels, but
Mrs, Wynne actually does every bit of
the work herself, from the time that the
metal is crude ore until it is a finished
work of art"
Although Madeleine Yale Wynne. au-
thor of the much-talked-of Little Room 3"
and other clever stories-frequent exhibitor
of paintings at the Art Institute, a brill
liant society woman-a modeler and de-
signer. was by no means unfamiliar to
me, Madeleine Yale Wynne, silversmith.
sounded so unique and interesting that
Immediately sought to learn more about
her latest expression in art, at her beauti-
full hofe in Ritchle place.
How Mrs. WynDe Works.
1.-THE work do" said Mrs. Wynnee sis
practically what the old workmen of In
lie Ia.
machinery came TO corrupt, and invention
took the place OF Imagination Some
| has taste but not education. use the
| crude ore just as IL comes from the mines
when can get 1t, but more often have 10
take the metals from the. rolling mills.
| where they have been melted and rolled
! into sheets From that moment my per-
sonality alone determines what form the
metal Is to take. l heat and hammer. heat
and hammer, burnish, press and shape as
my imagination leads, unhampered by the
| academic, or the demands of manufactur-
! er and dealer
Metals have temperaments Just as much
! as people, and should consider il a sin
| TO warp one into a form antagonstic "a
! its nature. From the time a metal
| comes into my hands we are co-operative
and I never ask it for anything that does
| not belong to it temperamentany. But
now You would perhaps like to see some OF
my work" bringing forward basket MI
! ed with all sorts of quaint and bizarre
! hend-wrought ornaments.
| Everything that l do Is in color" and
| from the basket came a delicious study in
| brown, heavy silver twist irregulariy en-.
amled in brown TO which was attached an
ooze belt of the same shade; then some
| queerly twisted silv buckles enamelad In
strange blues and greens; here was q. deli.
| cate clasp Of transparent blue enamel u
! harmonic with a crush belt OF chansao.
| Die silk This is simply a scheme 4,
color with a tendency to irreiescenee,' on,
planned the clever woman. Color for M
| expresses the whole gamut of The ep,o.
IONS While form Is purely Intellectual"
But perhaps the most fascinating Of thos.
| archaic creations were some porgeo,,,
cloak fasteners In copper studded owe,
with brilliant hued enamels, to be be,d 10
| gether with thongs of braided loathar
which might easily have been made 10 las.
ten the cloak OF "a Bo1dcea, or an Esvn.
| tan Queen. Ia contrast TO these was a
beautifully hammered ana beaten oad.
shaped silver buckle with depreselons ana
open work. giving the effect OF exauisItr
| embroidery or lace
These depressions and omen worl, O." said
| the filyerFmifh lea reply 10 my auestiors
/ - make accofdn 20 my eye with a KIND
| ~ hNi while the silver "a stll hot You
| have to eNercife great care in WORKING III
| silver, a has decided temper al ~ own
nnd 10 you undertake 90 force or subt.r,
ii 10 ODE heat Tor TOO long time. u Ftiffen.