Blanche Lazzell
Blanche Lazzell was an American painter, printmaker and designer. Known especially for her whiteline woodcuts, she was an early modernist American artist, bringing elements of Cubism and abstraction into her art.
Nettie Blanche Lazzell was born October 10, 1878 on a farm near Maidsville, West Virginia to Mary Prudence Pope and Cornelius Carhart Lazzell. Her father was a direct descendant of Reverend Thomas and Hannah Lazzell, pioneers who settled in Monongalia County after the American Revolutionary War. The Lazzells were devout Methodists, attending the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church. The ninth of ten children, she was nicknamed Pet by her older brother Rufus, a name that her family would continue to use throughout her life. She grew up on the 200160acre family farm, attending a oneroom schoolhouse on the property where students from the first through eighth grades were taught from October through February. Her mother died when she was twelve.
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