Blanche Lazzell | |
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 Lazzell in Manhattan, circa 1908 | |
| Born | Nettie Blanche Lazzell October 10, 1878 |
| Died | June 1, 1956 (aged 77) |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Printmaking, painting, etching |
| Notable work | The Monongahela (1926) |
| Movement | Modernism |
Blanche Lazzell (October 10, 1878 – June 1, 1956) was an American painter, printmaker and designer. Known especially for her white-line woodcuts, she was an early modernist American artist, bringing elements of Cubism and abstraction into her art.
Born in a small farming community in West Virginia, Lazzell traveled to Europe twice, studying in Paris with French artists Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, and André Lhote. In 1915, she began spending her summers in the Cape Cod art community of Provincetown, Massachusetts, and eventually settled there permanently. She was one of the founding members of the Provincetown Printers, a group of artists who experimented with a white-line woodcut technique based on the Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints.