Helen Hyde

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Helen Hyde 1868-1919



The Daruma Branch
Date: 1910
Size: 7 3/4 x 11 inches

© Robyn Buntin of Honolulu

http://www.robynbuntin.com/ukiyo-e/item.asp?ProductID=2522


Helen Hyde was a pioneer of color woodblock printmaking in America and one of the first Western women to study woodblock printing in the Orient. At the age of 12 she began studying with Ferdinand Richardt, the Danish landsape painter. She later studied with Soren Emil Carlsen, Franz Skarbina, Albert Sterner, and Raphael Collins.

It was Felix Regamey who cultivated Hyde's interest in Oriental art. In 1899 Hyde went to Japan where she studied with Kano Tomonobu, the last master of the Kano school of painting. She remained in Japan for 15 years. As subjects for her art she chose women and children, portraying scenes from everyday domestic life as well as Japanese festivals.

Collections in Art Institute of Chicago; Library of Congress; Rutgers University; Carnegie Library; Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, San Francisco.

© Robyn Buntin of Honolulu

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Another great collection of her Japanese Woodblocks.

Davidson Galleries

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One of the best known and most successful American printmakers of the early twentieth century, Helen Hyde (1868-1919) found her identity in Japan where she lived for most of the fifteen years between 1899 and 1914, and which she considered her "home." Her support community remained a group of European and Euro-American women, in Japan, and in the United States.

Female kin, friends, and fellow artists, particularly in San Francisco, Chicago, and Tokyo, nurtured her art, provided an audience for her artistic production, and gave her companionship. Japanese women and children were subjects of her most popular prints.

Read the whole article in our library:
Helen Hyde, American Printmaker, by Joan M. Jensen

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By Helen Hyde (1868 - 1919) dated 1914.

- Shared by Hayato Tokugawa -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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Hanga Woodblockprints in the Daruma Museum

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達磨　だるまの版画ｷﾞｬﾗﾘｰ　はこちら。
..... Photo Gallery


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