Sunday, July 8, 2012

Bertha Boynton Lum: Woodcuts, Part 3


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Bertha Boynton Lum
Printmaker and Illustrator
American (1869–1954)

   Biography from Scholten Japanese Art and Bertha-Lum.org:

Pine Tree Fairy
by Bertha Lum, 1916

Bertha Lum authored and illustrated several books of Japanese fairy tales, among them "Gods, Goblins and Ghosts" in 1922 and "Gangplanks to the East" in 1936. 


Song of the Brook
by Bertha Lum, 1916

Her work received honors in Rome, Paris and Portugal and is represented in the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts.

Wind Sprite
by Bertha Lum, 1920


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