Ten Days in Japan. For the Canadian Pacific
- Canada: [Candian Pacific Railway], 1930
Canada: [Candian Pacific Railway], 1930. First edition. Very Good. Publisher's color-printed orange paper wrappers. Wrappers professionally strengthened at spine. Some chipping to edges. A clean, fresh copy. Very good. Illustrated throughout by Bertha Lum, including ten full-page illustrations (two in color) and lively color-printed pictorial endpapers. This Japanese travel itinerary aims to "give the most important and interesting things to see in ten days,” including shrines, gardens, and wrestling matches.
Lum (1869 – 1954) was an illustrator, printer, and silkscreen artist who was influenced by Japanese and Chinese art throughout her career. Educated at the Art Institute of Chicago, Lum first traveled to Japan on her honeymoon in 1903, where she learned the basics of the traditional Japanese ukiyo-e printing method; after that introduction, she became "fascinated by Japanese prints and caught up in the arts and crafts movement" (Gravalos, Bertha Lum biography). Her art found success in Japan, where she was the only female artist to exhibit at the Tokyo International Exhibition in 1912, and in California, where her work was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1920 (she later lived in Los Angeles from 1924-27). Contemporary reviewers called Lum's work "never imitative, but fresh and individual" and praised the way she innovated stylistically with traditional techniques (Wright, "Bertha Lum's Wood-Block Prints," 1923). Lum produced most of her work between 1900 and 1936, about the same time that Frank Lloyd Wright began to collect and deal in ukiyo-e prints.
Lum published illustrated books and contributed artwork to periodicals including Good Housekeeping. Based on her experiences living in Beijing for two years, the Canadian Pacific Railway also commissioned her to write a similar travel book on the area. She was a member of the California Society of Printmakers and a Master Craftsman of the Boston-based Society of Arts and Crafts.
This is a rare item. OCLC records only one copy (Cleveland PL). Very Good.
Lum (1869 – 1954) was an illustrator, printer, and silkscreen artist who was influenced by Japanese and Chinese art throughout her career. Educated at the Art Institute of Chicago, Lum first traveled to Japan on her honeymoon in 1903, where she learned the basics of the traditional Japanese ukiyo-e printing method; after that introduction, she became "fascinated by Japanese prints and caught up in the arts and crafts movement" (Gravalos, Bertha Lum biography). Her art found success in Japan, where she was the only female artist to exhibit at the Tokyo International Exhibition in 1912, and in California, where her work was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1920 (she later lived in Los Angeles from 1924-27). Contemporary reviewers called Lum's work "never imitative, but fresh and individual" and praised the way she innovated stylistically with traditional techniques (Wright, "Bertha Lum's Wood-Block Prints," 1923). Lum produced most of her work between 1900 and 1936, about the same time that Frank Lloyd Wright began to collect and deal in ukiyo-e prints.
Lum published illustrated books and contributed artwork to periodicals including Good Housekeeping. Based on her experiences living in Beijing for two years, the Canadian Pacific Railway also commissioned her to write a similar travel book on the area. She was a member of the California Society of Printmakers and a Master Craftsman of the Boston-based Society of Arts and Crafts.
This is a rare item. OCLC records only one copy (Cleveland PL). Very Good.