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American Art

White Peacock

Helen Hyde

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

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.

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) 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). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Pessutti, 83.244.3. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

White Peacock

Date

1914

Medium

Color woodcut on cream, thin, slightly textured laid paper

Classification

Print

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)

Signatures

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".

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Pessutti

Accession Number

83.244.3

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Artists and makers

Helen Hyde

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