~ BERTHA LUM ~
~ BERTHA LUM ~
Lum became fascinated with japanese woodcuts while a student at the Chicago Art Institute. Beginning with her honeymoon visit to Japan, she spent much of her life in Asia, working closely with japanese woodcutters and printers. Using the japanese printing method of layering water-based inks, she created subtle color schemes and delicate, sinuous forms. She lived in China from 1922-24 and 1927-29, where she created Through the West Gate. She also lived periodically in San Francisco, where she made exquisite landscapes of the California coastline. In addition to prints and watercolors, Lum produced costume and theatrical designs, decorative scenes and book illustrations.
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| BERTHA LUM American (1879-1954)
Road to the Forest, 1916. Gravalos & Pulin 45. Woodcut printed in colors on laid japanese paper.
Signed, dated and annotated "no 127" in pencil.
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