February 7 - Blanche Lazzell

I got to know Blanche Lazzell's printmaking work through serendipity. I was working on an artists A-Z group project and picked the letter L before all the "good letters" were taken. As I looked through an alphabetical list of artists, Lazzell caught my eye. I was drawn to her landscape prints which seem to be both simple and complex in their composition.

Her printmaking style, called white line printing, was explored by a group of artists living in Provincetown, the Provincetown Printers. They adapted traditional Japanese techniques to carve and print. Lazzell became the most well known of the group, yet few of her landscape images are available on the web.