White Peacock
Helen Hyde
American Art
Many aspects of Helen Hyde’s career parallel that of Bertha Lum, whose works are also on view. Both artists lived in Japan (although it seems that they were not acquainted), studied with local masters, created woodcuts in a Japanese manner, and achieved commercial success. Ironically, despite Hyde’s relatively unconventional life as an unmarried professional woman, she favored what were considered typically “feminine” subjects of mothers and children in her art.
MEDIUM
Color woodcut on cream, thin, slightly textured laid paper
DATES
1914
DIMENSIONS
Other (Folder): 14 1/4 x 19 5/8 in. (36.2 x 49.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/16 x 15 3/8 in. (28.1 x 39.1 cm)
Image: 8 3/4 x 10 7/16 in. (22.3 x 26.5 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed in plate, upper right corner, etched: "HH"/ "[artist's seal of a four leafed clover]"; in plate, lower left corner, in graphite "[illeg]"/ etched: "copyright, 1914, by Helen Hyde."l; in plate, lower right, in graphite: "Helen Hyde".
INSCRIPTIONS
Inscribed, in plate, upper right corner, etched: "HH"/ "[artist's seal of a four leafed clover]"; in plate, lower left corner, in graphite "[illeg]"/ etched: "copyright, 1914, by Helen Hyde."l; in plate, lower right, in graphite: "Helen Hyde"; lower left corner of sheet, in graphite: "original / White Peacock"; lower right corner of sheet, in graphite: "Helen Hyde / U.S.A. 1863-1919".
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
83.244.3
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Pessutti
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Three Japanese girls stand at lower right beside a blossoming cherry tree staring at a peacock and peahen.
Condition: excellent, some staining in border. Arrived matted.
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Helen Hyde (American, 1868–1919). White Peacock, 1914. Color woodcut on cream, thin, slightly textured laid paper, Other (Folder): 14 1/4 x 19 5/8 in. (36.2 x 49.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Pessutti, 83.244.3 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 83.244.3_PS1.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 83.244.3_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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