Sketchbook, “Kaywood, Staten Island”
Helena de Kay Gilder is better known for her role as a progressive cultural tastemaker in late nineteenth-century New York than for her paintings and drawings. This rare volume of her work in pastel across a period of years—carried out at her family home, “Kaywood,” on Staten Island—features sketches of her children as well as landscape and nature studies. It serves as testament to de Kay Gilder’s ongoing creativity, following her prioritization of marriage and motherhood over a professional art career.
Artwork Details
- Title: Sketchbook, “Kaywood, Staten Island”
- Artist: Helena de Kay (1846–1916)
- Date: ca. 1880–93
- Medium: Pastel and charcoal on onion skin paper in bound ledger book
- Dimensions: 10 7/8 × 8 3/4 in. (27.6 × 22.2 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Mary Ann Lublin, in memory of her parents, Howard and Shirley Lublin, 2023
- Object Number: 2023.284.1
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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