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

From the Hanga and Torii Galleries

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

From the Hanga and Torii Galleries

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

From the Hanga and Torii Galleries

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