A Roundelay 1906

This is "A Roundelay" by Helen Hyde, she made it in 1906 using a color woodblock print. I can see the artist taking her time, planning, and carving out these various blocks for each color. I'm really drawn to the way she depicts children in nature. Look at those colors – the soft blues, the muted yellows, the dusty pinks, the blacks. I can feel the coolness of the evening as two children sit perched up high on a branch while another plays them a tune. What are they looking at? Are they in love? I wonder if she wanted to show children outside of the home at leisure. This print really makes me wonder about the relationship between western artists and Japanese art around the turn of the century. I feel connected to Hyde, imagining her studying Japanese prints and thinking about how she could incorporate that sensibility into her own art, finding her own version of it.