Blanche Lazzell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Blanche Lazzell

American painter and printmaker

Date of Birth: 10-Oct-1878

Place of Birth: Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jul-1956

Profession: painter, printmaker

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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.