Catalog ID: 000
Artist: Lilian Miller
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: Korea Series
Edition: First
Date: 1928
Publisher: The Artist - Privately Published
Reference No.: Brown Figure: #55; cat. #68
Size: 9 -3/4 x 15 -1/4 "
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
Artist: Lilian Miller
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: Korea Series
Edition: First
Date: 1928
Publisher: The Artist - Privately Published
Reference No.: Brown Figure: #55; cat. #68
Size: 9 -3/4 x 15 -1/4 "
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
Signed, dated and numbered by the artist in black ink. A very early numbered impression: #1/16 in black ink; lower right corner of image. Miller's poem, "The Golden Junk" from her book Grass Blades describes this specific work:
'Over the soft blue stretches of the plain, where the crickets weave their wistful even song. And the cool night-fragrance of the shadowed earth, freshens the jaded breeze. Lo, a crescent moon rides high with tilted prow, like a gleaming golden junk against the dusk, like a shining golden junk against the night, gliding through cobalt seas.'
The tonal surface of the poem is evoked in the dark saturated blue of the mountains shimmering between the gray-green hillside in front and the lambent glow of the sunset behind.