The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-04

TOKYO, Feb. 4.-The lnterpretaa- tion of Korea and the Koreans by means of the wood-block color print is service being rendered Ameri- cans in the Orient and in many of the larger American cities today by Miss Lillian ("JackD Miller, daugh- ter of Consul General and Mrs. Rans- ford S. Miller, of Seoul, Korea. Dur ing the Christmas season just past Miss Miller's famous Korean charac- ters, Father Kim" the old man of Korea; the washerwoman, who is prominent in "Monday Morning in Korea" and various other subjects this young American artist has made we'll known were purchased by thousands in Picking, Shanghai, Tokio and Seoul. Finishing her work in her studio, near Tokio, Miss Miller and during the present month she is accompanying Americas Consul General there in hunting trips for wild pigs. which may be found in that section of Korea.
 An American girl, who was born in Tokio while her father was in the consular service here, Miss Miller is today one of the outstanding Ameri- cans in the Orient who is really doing her share toward explaining this section of the world to the United States Miller, who was among those mentioned for the post of Ambassa- dor to Japan, has been in the Ameri- can embassy in Tokio during Miss Miller's childhood, and it was in those days that she first became in- terested in Japanese woodcut art. She had her preliminary education in foreign schools in Japan, going to Washington, D. C., for her high school work. At the age of ten she was taking painting lessons under Kano, who was at that time famous as a court painter in Tokio. When only twenty years old she ex- 'hibited paintings at the Uyeno Academy of Fine Art. While she was at college in Vassar her father was sent to Korea, and when she re- turned to the Orient, in 1917, she decided to study and to work defi- nitely for career in art. When America entered the great war she went to Washington, where from 1918 to 1919 she had a share in the civilian work for carrying on the conflict. It was when she returned to Japan, in 1919, that she began her work in the wood-block art in ear nest.
 Sought after by the diplomatic and business sets of Tokio, Miss Miller has taken studio in the suburbs of the Japanese capital, and it is sell dom that she is seen at any social event Her studio is small Japan csc house, where she employs a Japanese wood-block worker many days of the year in the mechanical part of printing her original sketches of Korea and Japan.
 Asked why she decided to change from the Japanese to the Korean subjects, Miss Miller said: Away back in 1917 I saw Korea for the first time It seemed to me story book land. The people are like old Chinese sages, with their long flow ing garments of white, always white, and the men, with their odd little black hats"
 Miss Millers way of executing the wood-block painting is to sketch her subject first, finishing the com pleted color sketch Her work has recently been shown in New York, and only within the last few weeks she has received word of her cleo tion to the Boston Arts and Crafts Society. Her most famous print per- haps is "Old Father Kim" the to- bacco man. of Korea. This print shows an old Korean, in flowing white robe, tiny hat on his head and