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Robert Wilson Hyde
A House Book1906

Not on view
Open hand-illustrated book with two facing pages, each framed by dense painted borders of colorful bell-shaped flowers and green vines in Arts and Crafts style, with gothic calligraphy text in black and gold ink

Robert Wilson Hyde, Charles Frederick Eaton, A House Book, 1906, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Max Palevsky and Jodie Evans in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary, photo @ Museum Associates/LACMA

Illustrator
Robert Wilson Hyde
United States, California, Santa Barbara, 1875-1951
Attributed to
Charles Frederick Eaton
United States, active France, Nice and Paris, active California, Santa Barbara and Montecito, 1842-1930
Title
A House Book
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1906
Medium
Suede and brass cover, suede flyleaves, parchment, wove rag paper, and ink
Dimensions
unspecified: 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 x 1 3/8 in. (29.21 x 22.23 x 3.4925 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Max Palevsky and Jodie Evans in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary
Accession Number
M.89.151.31
Classification
Books
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

  • Bowman, Leslie Greene. American Arts and Crafts: Virtue in Design. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990.