A rainy twilight / Bertha Lum. – Antique Wall Art
![A rainy twilight / Bertha Lum., [1907] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f1/f1f4e9c99e27-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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A rainy twilight / Bertha Lum. comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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A rainy twilight / Bertha Lum.
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Rain falling at dusk in Japan gives this color woodcut its mood, with soft evening light and wet ground carrying most of the scene. Bertha Lum made it around 1907, when American printmakers were drawn to Japanese woodblock traditions and their flat fields of color and close attention to weather. Color woodcuts like this were built up from separate carved blocks, one for each hue, so the layered tones are part of the work's craft. The pencil signature adds a personal mark to this impression, and the rain itself is suggested by fine lines against the dimming sky.
| 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 | 4,096 × 3,260 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-177434 |
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