Maidsville, West Virginia's daughter Blanche Lazzell (1878-1956) was a pioneer in American modernism. She studied in New York and Paris and adopted new approaches of fauvism and cubism, which eventually made her a leading figure in the respective worlds of avant-garde art and color-woodblock printmaking. Blanche Lazzell: The Life and Work of an American Modernist explores Lazzell's life from her early days as a graduate of West Virginia University in 1905, to New York, Paris, and the artist community in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Lazzell is responsible for the first non-objective prints and paintings created in this country. Although not fully appreciated in her lifetime, a renewed interest in her white-line woodblock prints in the past two decades has brought deserved recognition of Lazzell's art and genius. This collection features essays and full-color prints, over two hundred illustrations and fifty plates, including many rare photographs of the artist and her work, which detail her career and role as a major figure in the American modernist art movement.