White Peacock
Many aspects of Helen Hyde's career parallel that of Bertha Lum. 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.
- Artist: Helen Hyde
- 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)
- 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".
- Collection: American Art
- Museum Location: Brooklyn Museum, BMA, 2N12, A618
- Accession Number: 83.244.3
- Image: 83.244.3_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 0,
