[Aoyagi (yellow willow)] / Bertha Lum. – Antique Print
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(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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A window into the past: [Aoyagi (yellow willow)] / Bertha Lum., preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Aoyagi (yellow willow)] / Bertha Lum.
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The title, Aoyagi, which the record gives as "yellow willow," names the tree that anchors this composition, where a woman stands among its branches. Bertha Lum, an American printmaker, made color woodcuts of Asian women and scenes in the early twentieth century, using the Japanese method of carving a separate block for each color. Her work drew on the conventions of ukiyo-e while reflecting her own vision. This signed print, dated between 1900 and 1930, reflects the period's growing American interest in Japanese woodblock printing.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1930] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, col. |
| Genre | Woodcuts Color 1900-1930. |
| Notes | Signed in pencil. |
| Subjects | Women--Japan--1900-1930. Willows--Japan--1900-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 679 × 1,536 px · prints to 2 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173827 |
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