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Bertha Boynton Lum (1869 – 1954) was an American artist known for helping popularize the Japanese and Chinese woodblock print outside of Asia.
Bertha se inspiró en los grandes artistas del pasado: Hokusai, Hiroshige y también Utamaro, por quien sentía especial predilección. También le inspiraron los relatos de Lafcadio Learn. Varios de sus grabados reproducen personajes de los libros de Lafcadio : Aoyagi, Tanabata, O Sono y O Yuki.
Biography. Bertha B. Lum was born Bertha Boynton Bull in may 1869 in Typton, Iowa. Her father was Joseph W. Bull (1841-1923) and her mother Harriet Ann Boynton (1842-1925). Joseph W. Bull was practicing Law and Harriet Boynton had been a school teacher in Ohio and Iowa. In 1900 Bertha and her family was living in Duluth.
Bertha Lum. American Art. Bertha Lum’s engagement with Japonisme was more intense than many of her American contemporaries. She embraced not only Japanese subjects and aesthetics but also Japanese techniques of color woodblock printing, which she learned during extended stays in the country.
The Woodblock Prints. This is in chronological order the prints of Bertha Lum. I have renumbered / referenced the prints originally cataloged by M.E Gravalos & C. Pulin to take into account the discoveries since the publication of the catalog raisonné in 1990.
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18 de oct. de 2017 · Iowa-born artist Bertha Lum created colorful works in a style called Japonisme—a term first coined by French art critic and collector Phillipe Burty in 1872 that is used to describe the influence of Japanese design on Western art and artists.
