It's National Open an Umbrella Indoors Day!
Here's your chance to verify an old wives' tale. Open an umbrella indoors today, and note whether it brings you any bad luck. Write to us at 1001days@si.edu and tell us your verdict.
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Test Your Luck
It's National Open an Umbrella Indoors Day!
Here's your chance to verify an old wives' tale. Open an umbrella indoors today, and note whether it brings you any bad luck. Write to us at 1001days@si.edu and tell us your verdict.
The Family Umbrella suits today's occasion perfectly. Inspired by the Asian subjects of San Francisco's Chinatown, artist Helen Hyde went to Japan in 1899, where she studied traditional Japanese brush painting and produced her signature woodblock prints. Today Hyde is known for her Japanese-style prints and for her innovations in the color etching process.
Pictured: Helen Hyde, 1868–1919, The Family Umbrella, 1915, color woodcut on paper, 7 1/8 x 6 1/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase.