Pencil signed within the image.
Sight: H: 5; W: 5 inches.
Frame: H: 16 7/8; W: 14 3/4 inches.
Prov: Carolyn Staley Fine Prints
Condition: Very good.
Framed, matted and under glass.
Shipping weight: 3 lbs
Biography from the Archives of askART Born in Lima, New York, on April 6, 1868, Helen Hyde became a painter, illustrator, block printer, and etcher.  Having lived in Japan for many years, she is best known for her Japanese subjects of women and children.  She also worked in Mexico and the Carolinas.
Settled in Oakland, California, Helen first learned to paint from her neighbor Ferdinand Richardt.  She attended Wellesley School for Girls in Philadelphia, and after graduation, continued her art studies at the San Francisco School of Design under Emil Carlsen in 1886.   She then studied at the Art Students League in New York, with Skarbina in Berlin, Raphael Collin in Paris for three years, Kano Tomonobu in Japan, and in Holland. 
She lived in Chicago and then returned to California to live with a sister in her final year.  Hyde never married, and died in Pasadena on May 13, 1919. 
She was a member of the California Society of Etchers; the Chicago Society of Etchers; the San Francisco Art Association, and the San Francisco Sketch Club.