Lilian Miller (1895-1943)

Born in Tokyo, Japan on July 20 1895; Lilan Miller was the daughter of an American diplomat and an English Teacher. Three years after studying in the atelier of Kano Tomonobu (1843–1912) in the Kanō school in Tokyo; Lilian exhibited her first works under her art name : Gyokka (jeweled flower). In 1918, her family moved to Seoul where her father started to work as the American Consul General. Lilian Miller did woodblock painting as well, but she had to stop fo a while until 1920 when she started creating images of Korean people and countryside, which she sold in Tōkyō and the United States. Miller had a close friendship with the artist Elizabeth Keith, however; their relationship turned into rivalry. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, she destroyed much of her woodprint works, having felt betrayed by Japan. She then moved to Hawaii until her death on January 11, 1943 of cancer.

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