A rainy twilight / Bertha Lum. – Historic Reproduction
![A rainy twilight / Bertha Lum., [1907] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a0/a0a96758acb5-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with A rainy twilight / Bertha Lum., a historic print rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A rainy twilight / Bertha Lum.
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Rain falls through the dusk in this color woodcut, and the soft, blurred edges of the strokes give the scene a damp stillness. Bertha Lum, an American printmaker, made it in 1907 using the Japanese woodblock method, which required carving a separate block for each color and printing them in sequence. Her work drew on Japanese and Chinese print traditions at a time when many Western artists were looking to Asian art for new ideas about composition and color. The pencil signature on this impression is worth noting, since it marks the print as one of the hand-finished examples she authorized.
| Created / published | [1907] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color. |
| Genre | Woodcuts Color 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Signed in pencil. |
| Subjects | Rain--Japan--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,083 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173849 |
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