Helen Hyde

American (1868-1919)

Artist Helen Hyde traveled extensively during her career, studying with renowned artists in Berlin, Paris and Tokyo, as well as in New York City at the Arts Student League and in San Francisco. She lived for many years in Japan and is best known for her depictions of Japanese women and children. Her artistic merits earned her membership to the San Francisco Art Association, the Chicago Society of Etchers, the California Society of Etchers, and the Societe de la Gravure Originale en Couleur in Paris. She exhibited throughout the United States and abroad at such prestigious locales as the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Alaska-Yukon Expo, the Paris Salon of 1913, the Panama-Pacific International Expo of 1915, and the American Federation of the Arts. Her works can be found in public, private, and corporate collections including those of the Library of Congress, the Art Institute of Chicago, the New York Public Library, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Newark Museum, the Boston Museum, the Toronto Museum, and the California State Library.