From Paris to Provincetown: Blanche Lazzell and the Color Woodcut

by Barbara S. Shapiro

Book Overview

In the summer of 1915, the West Virginia-born artist Blanche Lazzell moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, and joined a group of printmakers who would come to be known as the Provincetown Printers. Influential in introducing Japanese print techniques to the United States, these artists began to pursue a new method of printing from a single block, and invented a technique known as the white-line woodcut. Through her studies in Paris with Fernand Leger...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878466290
• ISBN13: 9780878466290
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: MFA Publications
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.5" x 9.2"