Japanese Woodblock Prints

Between Two Worlds: The Life and Art of Lilian Miller

Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Pacific Asia Museum
Author: Dr. Kendall Brown
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1877921157
ISBN-13: 978-1877921155

Front Cover

Inner Cover

Pages 6-7

Pages 24-25

Pages 58-59

Pages 68-69

Pages 88-89

Back Cover

To quote from the book itself – “This catalog which accompanied the exhibition Between Two Worlds: The Life and Art of Lilian Miller at Pacific Asia Museum Pasadena is a comprehensive survey of Miller’s career and explores the artictic, cultural and sociological motivations behind her work as a single, self-supporting female artist living in two centuries”.

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Other books on or by Lilian Miller include:

Grass blades from a cinnamon garden [Paperback] By Lilian Miller – contained in Japanese style case. Includes four tipped-in woodblock prints, ‘Page 24-25′ above shows the four prints.

Modern Women in China and Japan: Gender, Feminism and Global Modernity Between the Wars (Library of China Studies Vol 1) [Hardcover] by Katrina Gulliver (author) published by I.B.Tauris.

A list of the other reference books I own can be found here – Woodblock Printmaker Books. I’d be interested to receive comments on any books you own or recommend.

Elizabeth Keith: The Printed Works [Paperback] by Richard Miles

Publisher: Pacific Asia Museum
Published: 1992
Author: Richard Miles
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1877921076 (Paperback)
ISBN-10: 1877921084 (Hardcover)
Contents: 80 pages the majority with colour images
Dimensions: 10.9 x 7.7 x 0.3 inches

Front Cover

Pages 8-9

Pages 10-11

Pages 30-31

Pages 34-35

Pages 44-45

Pages 66-67

Back Cover

Elizabeth Keith catalogue raisonné. This book contains contains a short biography of her life and shows 108 of Elizabeth Keith’s known prints presented in sections for China, Korea, the Philippines, Malacca and Singapore and Japan. The catalogue was produced in conjuction with the exhibition of her works held at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena from October 1991 to Februray 1992. The book also contains a section on her book of caricatures – Grin and Bear It.

The hardcover edition of the catalogue raisonné was limited to 200 copies which are signed and numbered by the author. The paperback version is often available on eBay and Amazon but I’ve not previously seen a copy of the hardcover book available for sale.

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Other books on or by Elizabeth Keith include:

Old Korea, The Land of Morning Calm (Hardcover) by Elizabeth Keith, E.K. Robertson Scott.

Masters Of The Colour Print 9 – Elizabeth Keith (Hardcover)
by Elizabeth Keith; Introduction by Malcolm C. Salaman (Author)

Eastern Windows [Hardcover] Elizabeth Keith (Author)

Elizabeth Keith: The Orient Through Western Eyes (Paperback). Catalog from University of Oregon 1974.

A list of the reference books I own can be found here – Woodblock Printmaker Books. I’d be interested to receive comments on any books you own or recommend.

Yoshida Toshi: Nature, Art, and Peace [Paperback] by Eugene M. Skibbe

Paperback: 92 pages, 16 full colour images
Publisher: Seascape Pubications, Edina, Minnesota USA.
Published: 1996
Language: English
ASIN: B0006RJGDE

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Inner Cover

Pages 10-11

Pages 14-15

Pages 22-23

Page 27

Pages 56-57

Pages 82-83

Must have book for the Toshi Yoshida collector. An interesting book outlining his life, family and work. This is not a catalogue raisonné – unfortunately none exists. The book is often available on eBay and Amazon.

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Other books on or by Toshi Yoshida include:

Varieties of The Japanese Print, Volume 1 [Hardcover] by Toshi Yoshida (only volume 1 was produced). The book includes 20 hand printed examples of Toshi Yoshida Japanese prints.

Japanese Print-Making: A Handbook of Traditional & Modern Techniques [Hardcover] by Toshi Yoshida (Author), Rei Yuki (Author).

Japanese Legacy: Four Generations of Yoshida Family Artists [Paperback] by Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Corporate Author) Laura W. Allen (Editor).

The Animal Picture Book Series by Toshi Yoshida. A childrens book series of 17 volumes – 20 were planned but the last three were never able to be completed by Toshi. Available in several languages (English, French, Japanese, others?).

A list of the reference books I own can be found here – Woodblock Printmaker Books. I’d be interested to receive comments on any books you can recommend.

Often when shopping online for books on woodblock prints or printmakers the book listing often does not include any examples of the inner pages. They usually show the front cover but that’s about it. Even in Amazon, which has excellent preview features for books they don’t often have them for books related to wooblock prints. [...]

The gallery has been updated with four prints by printmaker Keiichi Takasawa. Three are woodblock prints with the fourth being a lithograph. Takasawa was a highly regarded artist who won awards for his paintings and had two major woodblock print exhibitions in Paris in 1974 and 75. As with many Japanese printmakers his woodblock prints [...]

Lilian Miller: Between Two Worlds

Elizabeth Keith: The Printed Works

Yoshida Toshi: Nature Art and Peace

Woodblock Printmaker Book Previews

Keiichi Takasawa Woodblock Prints