International studio (24.1904/1905(1905))

Chromo-Xylographs



“the monarch of japan”
FROM THE CHROMO-XYLOGRAPH
BY HELEN HYDE
(By permission of Mr. C. Klackner,
London and New York)

CHROMO- BY HELEN HYDE
XYLOGRAPH
(By permission of Mr. C. Klackner,
London and New York)

Miss Hyde has been in-
terested in art all her
life; and, strange enough,
Japanese colour prints
had, as a child, a great
fascination for her, and
she would sit for hours
copying them in water-
colours. During her
studies in Japan, Miss
Hyde has developed a wonderfully intuitive grasp of the
Japanese personality ; not an easy thing to do when one con-
siders how totally unlike in every way the people of Japan
are to Europeans, Much of the success of this artist’s work is
doubtless due to this innate understanding of these fascinat-
ing people with whom she has lived for several years in such
close relationship. In fact it might almost be said that the
American artist sees her subjects through Japanese eyes, so

“CHILD OF THE PEOPLE”
FROM THE CHROMO-XYLOGRAPH
BY HELEN HYDE
(By permission of Mr. C. Klackner,
London and New York)

Japanese Madomia, which has attained to distinction through its
wonderful technique and the delicate play of light on the upturned
face-jof jthe woman. King Baby was another success; and later, when
studying in Tokio, Miss Hyde wrested from a number of native
artists ^the f Tokio art-exhibition prize for the best and most dis-
tinctive colour-print on Japanese paper. It showed two native
women of the aristocratic type, cooing in true feminine fashion over
a beautiful baby held in the
arms of one, and was called
The Monarch of Japan.
To go back to the beginning!

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