Blanche Lazzell, Provincetown Back Yards, 1926
Color woodcut (white-line). The Leslie and Johanna Garfield Collection—Partial gift of Leslie and Johanna Garfield and Museum purchase with funds from the Charles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund and John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund.
In the 1920s, Blanche Lazzell, an early American adopter of modernism, became the figurehead of a group of primarily women artists known as the Provincetown Printers. Based in Provincetown, a small fishing village and artistic hub at the tip of Cape Cod, the group achieved national prominence for their innovative color woodblock prints. Provincetown Back Yards is one of Lazzell’s finest prints, boldly outlined and vividly colored. It is one of more than four hundred works by artists associated with the Provincetown Printers acquired from the collection of the late Leslie and late Johanna Garfield—the most significant collection of its kind.
Color woodcut (white-line).
The Leslie and Johanna Garfield Collection—Partial gift of Leslie and Johanna Garfield and Museum purchase with funds from the Charles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund and John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund.