The land of the bluebird / Bertha Lum. – Antique Wall Art
(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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This historic print of The land of the bluebird / Bertha Lum. brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The land of the bluebird / Bertha Lum.
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Here a fairy-tale title, *The Land of the Bluebird*, sets the scene: the catalog pairs its birds with fairies, so the print imagines a realm where the two share the same world. Bertha Lum (1869-1954) made it as a color woodcut around 1916, a period when she was producing richly colored prints that drew on East Asian woodblock traditions. Her work often combined those techniques with Western themes of nature and folklore, which gave her images a dreamlike quality. The bluebird, a common American songbird, is a fitting emblem for the fantasy, and the print shows how Lum's craft could turn a familiar subject into something quietly magical.
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color 42.7 x 25.3 cm |
|---|---|
| Notes | c1916. |
| Subjects | Birds--1910-1920. Fairies--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 913 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173715 |
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