Between Two Worlds: The Life and Art of Lilian May Miller

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Summary: Lilian Miller, an under-noticed quality printmaker
Review: Lilian Miller, lived and worked in Japan in the early half of the 20th century, creating woodblock prints, paintings and drawings of her surroundings. Her efforts in woodblock printmaking are a unique vision of a Japan aesthetic during the art deco era. This book is on the thin side, but it catalogs a good quantity of her work(in color), and documents her life story. Lilian Miller, in my opinion is one of those under appreciated artists who has the general respect of fellow artists/printmakers and collectors of fine japanese prints. Outside of that circle she is not widely known. Her Blockprint images of Japan is what drew me to purchase this book and learn more. Regardless of her small notoriety, this book is a very good representation of another Western artists living in Japan before WW2.