Petunias
Artist
Blanche Lazzell
(American, 1878-1956)
CultureAmerican
Date1940
MediumWatercolor on wove paper
Credit LineMuseum collection
Object number0.4284
Not on view
DescriptionWatercolor of petunias in a vaseLabel TextBlanche Lazzell American, 1878–1956 Petunias, 1940 Watercolor on wove paper Like a mosaic or stained glass window, Blanche Lazzell’s Petunias fragments an everyday object into rich blocks of color. Study in New York and Paris introduced her to Cubism and other trends in modern art, but she ultimately settled in the artist’s colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts. This dynamic community also attracted collectors like Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., who opened his first museum in 1958 in a deconsecrated church building very near Lazzell’s former studio. Chrysler embraced Provincetown’s legacy of artistic experimentation and included Lazzell’s work in some of his new museum’s first exhibitions. Museum collection 0.4284
