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Bertha Lum (1879-1954)

Bertha Lum (1879-1954 Pasadena, CA) figure on bridge "Tanabata" pencil s & dated l/margin: Bertha Lum 1913 color woodcut on/p under glass sight: 11.75x 7
Illustration: BERTHA LUM Mary Evans O'Keefe Gravalos and Carol Pulin, Smithsonian Institution Press 1991 full page illustration pg 67 "....If the skies are clear on the seventh night of the seventh moon, lovely Tanabata comes, clad in blue and lighted by a yellow candle, to meet her parted lover on the Milky Way. Bertha Lum, Vogue, April 15, 1914" Provenance: private collection, Pacific Palisades, CA

Visual: Good, Slight Crease Lower Center. Blacklight: Good, NEOF.

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