Bamboo road / Bertha Lum – Historic Reproduction
(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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Bamboo road / Bertha Lum
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A path lined with bamboo gives this color woodcut its subject, a scene of the kind Bertha Lum drew from the Chinese landscape she knew. The Library of Congress dates the print to about 1913, though that date comes from an old caption card and has not been verified. Lum worked in color woodcut, a technique that required carving a separate block for each color, and she adapted methods she had learned from Asian printmaking traditions. The flat shapes and restrained palette in this print show the decorative qualities her work is known for.
| Created / published | c1913. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color. |
| Notes | Color woodcut 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 | 1,526 × 1,327 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173726 |
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