Artist: Lilian Miller
Medium: Original Pen and Ink Drawing
Series Title: Japan
Edition: Original
Date: 1914
Publisher: The Artist
Reference No.: Pacific Asia Museum catalog, Between Two Worlds: Discussed on Pg. 17
Size: 7 x 10 "
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
This original 1914 pen and ink drawing was completed by the artist at the age of nineteen, during her time at Vassar College, New York. The drawing is specifically discussed on page 17 of the Pacific Asia Museum catalog, Between Two Worlds, The Life and Art of Lilian May Miller. LM monogram and date written by the artist, in the lower right of the image.
Executed on a standard sheet of paper it presents a view through a latticed Japanese window past a large tree and across a bay over which Mt. Fuji rises majestically. The scene may well be from an inn at Hayama, a small town on the Izu peninsula with spectacular views of Fuji and a favorite vacation spot for the Miller family during their years in Toyko.
At just nine years of age, Miller began her strict training under numerous Japanese masters in Tokyo, Japan. She studied under the private tutelage of Kano Tomonobu (1843-1912), the ninth head of the Hamacho line of the distinguished Kano school. Tomonobu also taught at the prestigious Tokyo bijutsu gakko (Tokyo Art School) and worked privately with students including Austrian Emil Orlik and American Helen Hyde.