June Roses

Blanche Lazzell (1892-1957)
June Roses
Color woodcut, 1922
Prints & Photographs Division (140.10)

Blanche Lazzell was considered a primary, and particularly avant-garde, member of a group of artists known as the Provincetown Printmakers working in Massachusetts around the early 1900s. June Roses reflects the artist's growing interest in Cubism and is a stellar example of the Provincetown hallmark style of white-line color woodcut technique and of the Japanese-influenced style known as japonisme. In 1923, Lazzell moved to Paris to pursue studies with leading Cubist painter Fernand Lèger.