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BLANCHE LAZZELL Red Church on a Hill.
Watercolor on cream wove paper, 1934. 408x305 mm; 16 1/8x12 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower left recto.
Provenance: Private collection, New Orleans.
In 1934, Lazzell (1878-1956) was one of two West Virginians who received Federal Art Project grants through the Works Progress Administration. That same year she created a mural for a court room in the Monongalia County Courthouse entitled, Justice. The mural took fourteen weeks to complete. The mural is currently displayed at the Art Museum of West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. One of the leading modernist woodcut printmakers of her time, Lazzell continued experimenting with woodcut printmaking and, in 1935, studied with the renowned German abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann in Provincetown.
