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.
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