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Waitman T. Willey House

Waitman T. Willey House

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Blanche Lazzell

Born in a small, West Virginia farming community, Blanche Lazzell studied art at the Art Students League in New York and the Académie Julian and Académie Moderne in Paris. She was a founding member of the Provincetown Printers, a woodblock print society that met on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, who were inspired by the techniques of Japanese ukiyo-e (woodcut prints). Lazzell’s work was also influenced by abstraction and Cubism. Lazzell produced this print of the Waitman T. Willey House as part of a project supported by the American government’s Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. In total, she produced three prints of historic sites around her hometown of Morgantown.
Artist
Blanche Lazzell
(American, 1878 - 1956)
Title
Waitman T. Willey House
Date
1936
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
12 x 14 in. Image
Credit
Gift of Leslie and Johanna Garfield
Accession No.
2002.99.13
Classification
Prints
Geography
United States

Related

  • Stevens, Andrew. "Color Woodcut International: Japan, Britain, and America In the Early Twentieth Century." Madison: Chazen Museum of Art, 2006. p. 128, no. 69
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 20, No. 2, July- December 2003. p. 11

  • Color Woodcut International: Japan, Britain, and America in the Early 20th Century: Chazen Museum of Art, 12/9/2006–2/25/2007
  • From Paris to Provincetown: Blanche Lazzell and the Color Woodcut: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 9/7/2002–11/3/2002

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