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Lilian May MILLER  -  1895-1943      American Japonism

American painter and printmaker Lilian May Miller was born to an US state service diplomat who later became the US consul general in Seoul/Korea. She was born in Japan and trained in arts both by Japanese teachers and at a Western college. The artist's character and her art work were a mix of East and West. She was known for doing the carving and the printing of her woodblock prints herself. Lilian Miller died 1943 at the height of world war II of cancer at the age of 47.
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Literature sources used for artist biographies:
  • Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako, "Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints 1900-1975", University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X
  • Lane, Richard, "Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print", Fribourg, 1978, ISBN 0-914427-54-7
  • Laurance, P.Roberts, "A Dictionary of Japanese Artists", John Weatherhill Inc., New York, 1976
  • Frances Blakemore "Who is Who in Modern Japanese Prints", John Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1975. ISBN 0-8348-0101-9
  • Annual CWAJ catalogs