Fox woman / Bertha Lum – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Fox woman / Bertha Lum
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Fox woman" stands apart from the other pictures here through its subject, a figure drawn from the fox spirits of Chinese folklore, which were said to take human form, often as beautiful women. Bertha Lum (1869–1954) made it as a color woodcut, a technique that requires carving a separate block for each color and printing them in sequence, so every impression depends on careful registration. Lum drew often on East Asian themes, and her prints helped carry the color woodblock tradition into American printmaking. The date, c1916, comes from an older caption card, so treat it as approximate.
| Created / published | c1916. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color. |
| Notes | Color woodcut by Bertha Lum, copyrighted by Bertha Lum. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 954 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173712 |
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