Fireflies
Helen Hyde
1906
Medium
Aquatint in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 18.9 × 18.2 cm (7 1/2 × 7 3/16 in.); Sheet: 24.1 × 31.8 cm (9 1/2 × 12 9/16 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
77614
About the Artist
Helen Hyde · 1868–1919
Helen Hyde (1868–1919) was born in Lima, New York, and spent much of her childhood in California, where her family had relocated. She began her formal artistic training at the San Francisco School of Design and continued at the Art Students League in New York from 1888 to 1889. In 1890 she traveled to Europe, spending time in Berlin and subsequently in Paris from 1891 to 1894, where she became cap...