Little Pink Plum

 

Helen Hyde

  1868 - 1919 (biography)

1913  

color woodcut 

7 7/8 x 5 1/4" image 

pencil, lower right within image 

numbered 63 

Copyright 1913 by Helen Hyde in block in upper right; her HH in lower left and her chop in lower left corner 

M110; illustrated in Helen Hyde on page 60 

fine Japanese 

published 

artist 

PMJ309 

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"Little Pink Plum" was done in 1913 and is illustrated in color on page 60 of the catalogue raisonné. The raisonné entry includes this quote from Theodore Wores's article on Hyde - "An American Artist in Japan" for the September 1889 Century Magazine: "The plum may be considered the favorite flower of the Japanese, for the snow has hardly disappeared from the ground when its earliest blossoms burst forth and are hailed by the delighted people as the first token of spring." Note: This image shows a wrinkling that does is not very apparent in person; it resulted from the printing process, as well as the water-based ink; the scanner compresses the paper, thus casting shadows.