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Blanche LazzellAbstract in Blue, Yellow, Redn.d.
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Blanche Lazzell was one of America’s most important artists: She is credited as the first female abstract artist in America, and also among the finest and best-known artists of the white line printmaking genre, today referred to as “The Provincetown Print.”
In 1912, Lazzell traveled to Paris and discovered modern art in the Societe du Salon d'automne, which immediately inspired her to rethink her own work. She returned to the United States in 1914, venturing to Provincetown in 1915 where she studied for two summers with Charles Webster Hawthorne and later with Oliver Chaffee, who taught her the white line print method.
This undated oil painting is unique among Lazzell’s work for its deep, vivid colors and lack of clear figurative elements.
- Creator:Blanche Lazzell (1878-1956, American)
- Creation Year:n.d.
- Dimensions:Height: 15.25 in (38.74 cm)Width: 11.5 in (29.21 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Provincetown, MA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2511212178062
Blanche Lazzell
One of the earliest and most important female abstract artists in America, Blanche Lazzell is widely regarded for her paintings and innovative color woodblock prints. Works such as Abstract Composition No.6 (1928) and Peace, Joy, Love (1930) clearly demonstrate the influence of Geometric Cubism, a technique to which Lazzell was exposed while studying in Paris with André Lhote, Albert Gleize, and Fernand Léger in the 1920s. Her later works such as Untitled (1952) or Abstract in Blues, Yellow, Red move even further into abstraction. Lazzell is perhaps best remembered today for the more than 138 woodcuts she made using the distinctive “white line” technique developed by Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt and the Provincetown Printers. Combining representational and abstract elements in a style uniquely her own, prints such as Provincetown Back Yards. (1927), Marygolds. (1930), and Little Church (1952) are considered definitive examples of the technique.
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