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Bertha Lum, artist
American, 1879 - 1954
Rain, 1913
Color woodcut
27.9 x 15.9 cm (image)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edouard J. Bourbousson 1962.77.22

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Artist Biography: Born in Tipton, Iowa in 1879 (or a few years before) as Bertha Boynton Bull, and died in Genoa, Italy in 1954. She studied at the Chicago Art Institute, married the lawyer, Burt Lum, in 1903, and made a honeymoon trip to Japan. She returned to Japan in 1908 and 1911 for studies of woodcut making in the Japanese manner. She lived in Minneapolis until 1916, and afterwards in San Francisco. Her first trip to Peking was made in 1922, with several more until taking up permanent residence there. She returned to live in the United States in 1940, then went back to Peking from 1948 to 1953. In 1953 she went to Italy and died at her daughter Catherine's home in Genoa in 1954. See biographical file containing more materials at AFGA office.