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Blanche Lazzell (1878 — 1956)



Life Dates
Born 1878, Maidsville, WV
Died 1956, Morgantown, WV

Education
1898      West Virginia Conference Seminary
1899      South Carolina Co-Educational Institute, Edgefield, South Carolina
1901-05      West Virginia University
1907-08      Art Students League, New York, NY
1912      Académie Julian, Paris, France Académie Moderne, Paris, France
1915      Cape Cod School of Art, Provincetown, MA

Selected Museum Collections

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR
The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NJ
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI
Federal Reserve Board Art Gallery, Washington, DC
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
The Huntington Library Collection and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, NY
The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ

Solo Exhibitions

1914 Morgantown, WV
1925 Berkeley League of Fine Arts, Berkeley, CA
Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
1926 Art Guild, Springfield, MA
Wisconsin Society of Fine and Applied Arts, Milwaukee, WI
Louisville Art Club, Louisville, KY
1927 Howe Library, Hanover, NH
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
1928 Russell Sage College, Troy, NY
Teacher’s College, Albany, NY
Berkeley League of Fine Arts, Berkeley, CA
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Los Angeles Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
University of Oregon
Gallery Beaux Art, San Francisco, CA
1929 The Little Studio, Boston, MA
School of Social Research, New York, NY
1930 West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Federated Woman’s Clubs of West Virginia, Weston, WV
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
College Woman’s Club, Schenectady, NY
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1931 Woman’s Club, Waynesburg, PA
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Colony Club of Detroit, Detroit, MI
1932 Allied Artists of Charleston, Charleston, WV
New York Society of Women Artists, Squibb Building, New York, NY
Campus Club, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
1933 State Normal School of Fredonia, Fredonia, NY
English Department, Morgantown High School, Morgantown, WV
Art Club, Morgantown High School, Morgantown, WV
Delta Gamma Sorority, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Horace Crandall Gallery, Binghamton, NY
University Woman’s Club, Martinsburg, WV
Hudson Galleries, Detroit, MI
Amuse Club, Morgantown, WV
1934 Wichita Art Association, Wichita, KS
Westover Art Club, Morgantown, WV
South Park Grade School, Morgantown, WV
Gillespie Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1935 Allied Artists, Charleston, WV
Junior League, Huntington, WV
West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV
Woman’s Club, Weston, WV
Woman’s Club, Charles Town, WV
Department of Home Economics, High School, Clairton, PA
Denver Art Association, Denver, CO
1936 Bend of the Road Gallery, Whitman, MA
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Woman’s Club, Charles Town, WV
Woman’s Club, Larchmont, NY
The Stone House, Morgantown, WV
State Teachers College, Potsdam, NY
Hudson Galleries, Detroit, MI
Delphic Studios, New York, NY; 1937, 38
1937 Woman’s Club, North Attleboro, MA
Public Library, North Attleboro, MA
Pauline Stone Gallery, Springfield, MA
Redding Woman’s Club, Redding, MA
Paper Mills Playhouse, Short Hills, NJ
1938 Martin Luther Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Woman’s Club, Public Library, Clarksburg, WV
1941 State Teachers College, Superior, WI
1982 Pioneer American Cubist, Works from 1920-1950, Martin Diamond Fine Art, New York, NY
1985 Blanche Lazzell: Woodblock Prints in Color, Martin Diamond Fine Arts, New York, NY
1991 Blanche Lazzell: A Modernist Revisited, Archives of American Art, New York Regional Center, New York, NY
2000 Blanche Lazzell: American Modernist, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Blanche Lazzell: A West Virginia Woman’s Contribution to Early Modern Art, The West Virginia University College of Creative Arts, Morgantown, WV
2002 From Paris to Provincetown: Blanche Lazzell and the Color Woodblock, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Group Exhibitions

1919     Color Woodcut Printing in America, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI
First International Print Exhibition, Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles, CA
1920      C.L.W. Art Club, New York, NY; 1929
New York Society of Independent Artists, New York, NY; 1921, 23, 29, 36, 38
Brown-Robertson Gallery, New York, NY
Tower Studio, Chicago, IL Provincetown Printers, Provincetown, MA
Gallery on the Moors, Gloucester, MA
1921      Block Prints and Monotypes by Provincetown Group of Block Printers, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
New Orleans Watercolor Club, New Orleans, LA
Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario
Wichita Art Association, Wichita, KS; 1928-31, 35, 1937-40
1923      American Women’s Art Association, Paris, France; 1924-26
Salon d’Automne, Paris, France; 1924-28, 30
1925      L’Art d’aujourd’hui Exposition Internationale, Salon d’Automne, Paris, France
New York Society of Women Artists, New York, NY; 1926-29, 34, 1937-41
National Arts Club, New York, NY
Sail Loft Club, Provincetown, MA; 1926-29
Delgado Museum, New Orleans, LA
1926      Second Annual Exhibition, The New York Society of Women Artists, Anderson Galleries, New York, NY
Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
1927      Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA; 1928-33
Print Club, Philadelphia, PA; 1929, 1931-34, 36, 37, 40, 41
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; 1928, 29, 31, 32
1928      Third Annual Exhibition, The New York Society of Women Artists, Anderson Galleries, New York, NY
Exhibition of Provincetown Artists, Macy’s, New York, NY
1929      First Members Exhibition, The New England Society of Contemporary Art Inc., Boston Art Club, Boston, MA
First International Exhibition of Lithography and Wood Engraving, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Art Club, Morgantown, WV
Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA
Burnsville High School, Burnsville, WV
Pancoast Gallery, Boston, MA
Engraving, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Frances Miller Gallery, New York, NY
The Crafter, Cincinnati, OH
1930      Women’s Club, Morgantown, VW; 1938
1931      Fourth Annual Exhibition of American Block Prints, Wichita Art Association, Wichita, KS
Wanamaker’s, Philadelphia, PA
Brownell Lambertson Gallery, New York, NY
New York Society of Women Artists, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
International Print Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Art Club, Newark, NJ
1932      New England Society of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; 1934
J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
Cape Theatre, Dennis, MA
First Exhibition: Fifty Color Prints of the Year, Los Angeles, CA
Delphic Studios, New York, NY; 1934, 38
1933      The First Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Woodcuts, The Woodcut Society, Kansas City, MO
Sixth Annual Exhibition of American Block Prints, Wichita Art Association, Wichita, KS
American Color Prints, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Blanche Lazzell and Ada Gilmore Chaffee, Allied Artists, Charleston, WV
Junior League, Fairmont, WV
Woman’s Club, Lost Creek, WV
Anchorage Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Art Market, Provincetown, MA; 1934, 35 Increase Robinson Gallery, Chicago, IL
Alvin von Hinzman, New York, NY
Shepherds College, Shepherdstown, WV
Education Department, American Federation of Arts, Washington, DC
1935      New York Society of Women Artists, Squibb Building, New York, NY; 1936
New York Society of Women Artists, Argent Gallery, New York, NY
Art Week, Jorden Marsh, Boston, MA; 1936-41
Century Gallery (Chicago), Provincetown, MA
Fitzwilliam Art Center, Fitzwilliam, NH
Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
1936      The Art Colony, Provincetown, MA
The Studio Club, Nashville, TN
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1937      Art Center, Hyanis, MA
Special Exhibition to Tokyo, Philadelphia Print Club, Tokyo, Japan
Dennis Playhouse, Dennis, MA
Joseph Lazarevich Gallery, Hollywood, CA
1938      National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, New York, NY; 1939
Richmond Academy of Art, Richmond, VA
1939      New York World’s Fair 1940, New York, NY: 1940
Richmond Academy of Art, Richmond, VA
1940      Buffalo Print Club, Buffalo, NY
State Teacher’s College, Superior, WI
Monongalia Art Guild, Morgantown, WV
Allied Artists of Charlestown, Charlestown, WV
1946      Library of Congress, Washington, DC; 1948
Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; 1948
1949      Forum ’49, Gallery 200, Provincetown, MA
25th Annual Exhibition, The New York Society of Women Artists, Riverside Museum, New York, NY
1952 Thirteenth Traveling Exhibit, American Color Print Society, Provincetown, MA
28th Annual Exhibit, The New York Society of Women Artists, National Academy Galleries, New York, NY
1984      Emil Bisttram and Blanche Lazzell, Martin Diamond Fine Art, New York, NY
1990      A Spectrum of Innovation Color in American Printmaking, 1890-1960, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
1994 On Paper: Abstraction in American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1999      Drawn Across the Century: Highlights from the Dillard Collection of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
2000      The Art of the Provincetown Print, Demuth Foundation, Lancaster, PA
2000 Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art, 1909-1936, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, NY
2001 Flora: In Reverence of Nature, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Pioneers of Modernism, ACME Fine Art, Boston, MA

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Exhibitions
Blanche Lazzell: American Modernist
Flora: In Reverence of Nature
On Paper: Abstraction in American Art