Provincetown Artist Registry, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, New England

PROVINCETOWN ARTIST REGISTRY

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Lazzell Blanche
(1878-1956)

Four Boats

Blanche Lazzell is know primarily for her involvement with the Provincetown art world where she first sojourned in the summer of 1915. She was a painter, printmaker, and rugmaker. After a brief period when she was influenced by Impressionism (originally having come to Provincetown to study with Charles Hawthorne), Lazzell developed a decorative, geometric and cubist style, perfectly suited to flowers and the houses, wharves and rooftops of Provincetown. Artists flocked to Provincetown during WWI, when the doors to Paris were closed, and Lazzell described the feel of the town in those times: "Creative Energy was the air we breathed. It was in this quaint setting that the Provincetown Print came into being." And it was in the creation of the Provincetown Print that Blanche Lazzell was to excel. She once explained: "Originality, Simplicity, Freedom of Expression, and above all Sincerity, with a clean cut block, are characteristics of a good wood block print."

excepts from "Blanche Lazzell" by John Clarkson

Blanche Lazzell, Cape Cod in Autumn, 1918-19
Oil on canvas, 17" x 193/4"
Private Collection

Jan 18-Feb 17, 2002. The Provincetown Art Association and Museum: exhibition of Blanche Lazzell and Dorothy Loeb. Curated by Jim Bakker, this exhibition will highlight work from private collections in Provincetown and will be companion show to: From Paris to Provincetown: Blanche Lazzell and the Color Woodcut at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. (Jan 23-Apr 29, 2002). For more information, contact paam.org

The MFA has borrowed 5 works from PAAM's collection to include in the exhibition.

After Boston, the MFA show travels to the Cleveland Museum of Art (May 19-July 28, 2002) and to the Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Medison (Sept 7-Nov 3, 2002).