Gustave Sherman: Materials & Methods

Within 20th Century Jewels: Sherman, Boucher, Dior, and the European Ateliers, Sherman is the Canadian anchor, and the thread is material as much as style. The Austrian crystal that gives these pieces their fire is the same crystal, from the same source, that supplied Dior and the houses placed beside him here.

Gustave Sherman is not a provincial adjunct to the European ateliers but a participant in a common enterprise: a Montreal maker who observed their standard, drew upon their material, and, on the evidence of the objects themselves, frequently met it.

Happy Canada Day.