Temple gate / Bertha Lum – Historic Print
(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: Temple gate / Bertha Lum, preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Temple gate / Bertha Lum
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Here, Bertha Lum turns to a temple gateway, a subject that suits her interest in the architecture and daily life of China. Lum, an American artist, learned to cut and print color woodcuts in the Chinese manner after she moved to Peking (now Beijing) in the early 1910s, and she built each image from several carved blocks, one for each color. Her prints of temples, gardens, and street scenes were widely shown in the United States and helped introduce American audiences to East Asian woodblock methods. The record dates this print to about 1913, though that date comes from an old caption card and has not been verified.
| 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 | 796 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173723 |
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