Asia / 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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Asia / Bertha Lum
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Titled simply *Asia*, this color woodcut differs from many of Bertha Lum's prints by taking a broad, general subject rather than a single town, street, or scene. Lum, an American artist, made her woodcuts in Beijing during the 1910s and 1920s, working with Chinese carvers and printers who used multi-block color printing. Her work reflects the decorative traditions of East Asian art and her interest in presenting them to Western viewers. The c. 1920 date places the print near the height of her output in that period, and the layered color blocks are worth looking at closely.
| Created / published | c1920. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 826 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173731 |
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