Morning Snow on Bamboo, Japan - (3) A/B/C

Catalog ID: 10515

Artist: Lilian Miller
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Prints
Series Title: Japan Series
Edition: First
Date: 1920
Publisher: The Artist - Privately Published
Reference No.: Brown #27, #27A, #43
Size: 17 -1/2 x 7 "
Condition: Very fine

Notes:

Signed in black ink by the artist. Three titles: Morning Snow on Bamboo, Japan - 1.) "A" (Proof/Variant), 2.) "B" (Mica background) and 3.) "A" (Grey background).

Morning Snow on Bamboo, Japan centers on a design taken from an earlier work titled, "Bamboo in Snow". Upon the basic structure, Miller overprints different backgrounds for each variation, while exploring the dramatic formal effects achievable by radical simplifications of subject, color variation and blunt block carving.