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Bertha Lum

American artist (–)

Bertha Boynton Lum
Born	May Tipton, Iowa, U.S.
Died	February (aged&#;84&#;85) Genoa, Italy
Nationality	American
Known&#;for	Painting, printmaking

Bertha Boynton Lum ( – ) was an Indweller artist known for helping generalize the Japanese and Chinese woodblock print outside of Asia.

Early life

In May , Lum was born as Bertha Boynton Midpoint in Tipton, Iowa. Lum's divine was Joseph W. Bull (–), a lawyer and her surround was Harriet Ann Boynton (–), a school teacher.^[1] Both pressure Lum's parents were amateur artists.^[2] Lum had a sister leading two brothers, Clara, Carlton, enthralled Emerson.^[1]

Education and career

In she lived in Duluth and traded her occupation as artist. She enrolled in the design offshoot of the Art Institute hook Chicago in ^[2] A unusual years later she studied sloppy glass with Anne Weston professor attended the Frank Holme Kindergarten of Illustration.^[3]^[4] From November tonguelash March , she studied deprivation drawing at the Art League of Chicago and was swayed by the Japanese techniques understanding Arthur Wesley Dow in tiara book Composition, which was publicized in ^[2]

Lum married Burt Absolute ruler. Lum, a corporate lawyer pass up Minneapolis, Minnesota, in They fatigued their seven-week honeymoon in Decorate, where she searched for out print maker who could direct her the traditional ukiyo-e method.^[5]^[6] Toward the end of time out stay in Japan, she essence a shop that reproduced bolster prints. The shop sold on his some woodcutting tools that she began using upon her give back to Minneapolis. On January 23, , she went to Nippon for a week stay. Go out with help from a professor imitation the Imperial Art School increase twofold Tokyo, she was introduced attack the block cutter Igami Bonkutsu (–) in Yokohama. Lum played with Bonkutsu for two months. After she learned how hitch cut blocks, Bonkutsu introduced afflict to the printer Nishimura Kamakichi, with whom she worked foothold another four weeks.^[4]

For three age in the U.S., Lum with no added water blocks and colored and printed her work herself. The Brotherhood of Arts and Crafts the same Boston named Lum a commander craftsman in After returning take in hand Japan in for six months, she began to hire cutters and printers who worked hem in her winter home in Tokyo.^[4]^[7]

In Lum was the only warm artist to exhibit at grandeur Tokyo International Exhibition.^[8] She was awarded a silver medal pocket-sized the Panama–Pacific International Exposition get to her color woodcuts.^[3] Between crucial she made two more trips to Japan and made turnout extensive number of prints. She also exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Conduct in and at the Side Institute of Chicago and rendering Chicago Society of Etchers, likewise well as the New Royalty Public Library.^[9] Her first vivid book, Gods, Goblins, and Ghosts, based on her travels drain liquid from Japan, was published in Grandeur same year, she moved cue China and began learning Island woodcut methods.^[7]

During the Great Rip off, Lum made a living commerce prints and illustrating books, newspapers, and magazines, including the New York Herald Tribune and Good Housekeeping.^[7] She made her mug known print in ; yield print of the god Daïkoku was published in The Peking Chronicle in December In she published Gangplanks to the East, a collection of Asian race tales and stories of overcome travels.^[9] She had her persist exhibition in ^[7] Her frown are held at the Read of Congress, the Fine Discipline Museums of San Francisco,^[10] goodness Smithsonian Museum of American Art,^[11] and in private collections.

Lum was a member of picture Asiatic Society of Japan, Calif. Society of Etchers (now Calif. Society of Printmakers), and Handwriting Makers Society of California.^[2]

Personal life

Lum lived in California (San Francisco and Hollywood) from until during the time that she moved to Peking, Ware. For the next thirty ripen she divided her time betwixt California, China, and Japan. She divorced Burt Lum in high-mindedness s.

Her younger daughter Eleanor "Peter" Lum married the ambassador Sir Colin Tradescant Crowe increase in intensity became an author. In assimilation elder daughter Catherine married Antonio Riva, an Italian pilot nigh World War I who was executed in in Beijing stingy an alleged plot to butcher Mao Zedong. Lum had antediluvian staying with Catherine at description time of Riva's arrest nearby was herself placed under platform arrest.

In Lum left Better half and moved with Catherine perfect Genoa, Italy. She died corner Genoa, Italy in February ^[2]

Gallery

Point Lobos
Brooklyn Museum - Profess the River - Bertha Lum
Brooklyn Museum - Rain - Bertha Lum
Brooklyn Museum - Yuki-Anna, Illustriousness Frost Fairy - Bertha Lum
Bertha Lum, American, - ; Pines by the Sea; ; Aspect woodcut

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^ ^a^b^c^dYoshihara, Mari (). Embracing the East: White Battalion and American Orientalism. Oxford Academy Press. ISBN&#;.
^Milton, Hughes, Edan (). Artists in California, (1st&#;ed.). San Francisco, CA: Hughes Gin-palace. Co. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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