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Bertha Lum
Spinning Goddesscirca 1930-1935

Not on view
Print with flat color washes showing a woman in a coral robe and feathered headdress seated cross-legged at a small loom, threads extending upward, with a large circular form behind her and stylized golden birds visible through a window to our left
Artist or Maker
Bertha Lum
Title
Spinning Goddess
Place Made
United States
Date Made
circa 1930-1935
Medium
Hand-colored woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet: 24 × 16 in. (60.96 × 40.64 cm) Image: 22 3/4 × 14 5/8 in. (57.79 × 37.15 cm)
Credit Line
Graphic Arts Council Curatorial Discretionary Fund
Accession Number
M.79.246.2
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Gravalos, Mary Evans O'Keefe, and Carol Pulin. Bertha Lum. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
  • Davis, Bruce and Ebria Feinblatt. Los Angeles Prints: 1883-1980. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980.