  About the Artwork
  
  
  Blanche Lazzell was a central figure among a group of American artists who left Europe at the outbreak of World War I and settled in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Called the “Provincetown Printmakers,” they became known for color woodcuts like The Violet Jug, printed from a single block. This technique saved time, labor, and materials as compared to traditional color woodblock printing. According to traditional practices, individual colors were printed from separate blocks and printers strove for an identical image from impression to impression. The Provincetown Printmakers often approached each print as a unique object and frequently made significant color changes from print to print. Lazzell’s inspiration for her many floral still lifes came from the flowers she grew around her cottage on the Provincetown wharf.
  
  
  Title
  The Violet Jug
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1919
  
  Artist
  Blanche Lazzell
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1878-1956
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events.
  Some definitions include:
  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group.
  
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Woodcut printed in color ink on laid japan paper
  
  
  Dimensions
  Block: 12 × 11 5/8 inches (30.5 × 29.5 cm)
  Sheet: 18 1/8 × 15 5/8 inches (46 × 39.7 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Prints
  
  
  Department
  Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs
  
  
  Credit
  City of Detroit Purchase
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  20.77
  
  
  Copyright
  Copyright Not Evaluated
