From the Rice Fields, Helen Hyde

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Helen Hyde, From the Rice Fields
Helen Hyde, From the Rice Fields
Helen Hyde
From the Rice Fields
1901
Helen Hyde
1868–1919
From the Rice Fields, 1901
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: color woodcut
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 549 x 82 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 557 x 118 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 21 5/8 x 3 1/4 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 21 15/16 x 4 5/8 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 33 1/4 x 15 1/4 x 1 1/4 in
Weight (Weight): 6 lbs
Credit line: Museum purchase
Accession number: 1999.0004
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Inspired by Japan," Mar-2003, Cori Sherman At home in San Francisco, Hyde’s first popularly acclaimed etchings focused on snippets of life in nearby Chinatown, particularly of children and colorful festival scenes. Later, while living in Tokyo, she learned ukiyoe techniques by hiring professionals to teach her each step of color woodcut production. She designed her own signature cachet modeled on Japanese family crests and seal stamps. Her monogram of “HH” elongated to a rectangular cartouche and a stylized four-leaf clover enclosed in a circle were painted, printed, woven, and stamped onto most of her possessions and all of her woodcuts. For this print, From the Rice Fields, Hyde was determined to find the perfect quality of old paper to piece together for the long, vertical shape she envisioned, emulating the ukiyoe pillar print format. However, unaccustomed to standard techniques employed in Japan, her American audience did not appreciate the visible seam across the center that resulted, and sales were low enough to discourage Hyde from repeating the experiment.