June Roses - - 1922, White Line Color Woodcut.

Clarkson, block 40. Edition 3. Signed and dated in pencil.

Image size 11 5/8 x 11 11/16 inches (295 x 297 mm), sheet size 18 x 15 1/4 inches (457 x 387 mm).

A fine, rich impression, with fresh colors, on heavily textured handmade paper; full margins (1 3/4 to 4 inches). Pale foxing and creasing in the outside top and bottom margins from folds in the large sheet made by the artist. Inscribed in the artist's hand Blanche Lazzell, June Roses, Provincetown, Mass $30.00 on the bottom sheet edge, now reading upside down with the sheet folded flat. Numbered 105/1 in both the upper right and lower right margins, verso; and inscribed in the artist's hand Blanche Lazzell, Morgantown, West Virginia, U.S.A. in the top margin, verso.

Lazzell's use of textured paper contributes to this work's rich, painterly character, enhancing its quality of pure luminous energy.

SOLD

Exhibition Abstract Art- - 1925, Woodcut.

Edition not stated. Initialed in the block, lower right.

Image size 8 1/8 x 5 inches (206 x 127 mm); sheet size 12 x 9 inches (305 x 229 mm).

A fine impression, on taupe wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 5/8 to 2 1/4 inches); toning at the top and bottom sheet edges, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Very scarce.

Blanche Lazzell and Jessie Fremont Herring met during a sketching tour in Italy in February 1913. Lazzell moved from Morgantown, WV, to Provincetown, RI (where Herring resided) to pursue her career in the fine arts, and the two reunited in 1915. In the mid-1920s, Herring became the director of the Berkeley League of Fine Arts, and in 1925 she honored Lazzell with a one-woman exhibition of her woodcuts. Lazzell's Exhibition woodcut, created to announce the show, exemplifies her signature qualities of modernist balanced design and spontaneous directness.

$2200.