Landscape to City: A Collection of 20th Century Japanese Prints
Landscape to City: A Collection of 20th Century Japanese Prints
Lilian May Miller (1895-1943) | Sunrise on Fujiyama, Japan | Showa period, 20th century
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November 18, 03:38 PM GMT
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Lilian May Miller (1895-1943)
Sunrise on Fujiyama, Japan
Showa period, 20th century
woodblock print, signed and dated in black ink Lilian Miller 1928, sealed with artist's LMM monogram, to the bottom left margin as above, printed title to the bottom right margin LILIAN MILLER Oriental woodcuts
44.1 x 54.7 cm., 17⅜ x 21½ in.
Born in Tokyo in 1895, Miller was an American painter, woodblock print artist and poet. She studied modes and techniques associated with the traditional schools of Japanese painting, and often depicted the landscapes and peoples of the Far East, where she spent most of her life.
Miller designed prints in the shin-hanga, or ‘revival print’ style that was initiated and greatly promoted by the publisher Watanabe Shozaburo (1885-1962). She first turned to the art of woodblock printing in 1920, while living as a tenant of the artist Bertha B. Lum (1869-1954). A large part of her oeuvre, including paintings and woodblocks, was destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake of September 1st, 1923.
For an example of a different woodblock print by Miller, titled Moonlight on Mt. Fuji, in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, object number 1984.65, go to: