Blanche Lazzell Art on View > “Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist,” the first major exhibition in nearly two decades devoted to this artist, will soon grace the Bruce Museum. On view will be more than 60 paintings, prints, and other works on paper, most characterized by Lazzell’s bold colors and flattened forms.
At a Glance:
“Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist”
Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut
brucemuseum.org
February 6–April 27, 2025
Blanche Lazzell (1878–1956) moved from her native West Virginia to New York City, Paris, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her experiences enabled her to infuse American art with European modernism, and she is best remembered for experimenting with the white-line block technique, producing more than 100 such woodcuts. By cutting a design into a soft block of wood, then inking and transferring its individual sections one by one, Lazzell produced prints with translucent colors floating within the white boundaries left by her incised lines. At the Bruce, visitors will be invited to test Lazzell’s techniques in an adjacent interactive space.
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Image:
Blanche Lazzell (American, 1878–1956)
“Hollyhock,” 1917
Oil on canvas, 25 5/8 x 18 1/8 in.
Art Museum of West Virginia University Collection, gift of Nancy Watkins in memory of James F. McKinley and Nancy W. McKinley
c. Estate of Blanche Lazzell
