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Blanche Lazzell (1878–1956), a pioneering American Modernist artist and printmaker largely forgotten today, is featured in the exhibition “Herself: American Artists of the 20th Century” at New York’s Lincoln Glenn Gallery. The show brings together 30 women artists spanning roughly 90 years, including Alice Neel, Grace Hartigan, Barbara Kruger, Sheila Hicks, and March Avery. Lazzell, who earned her fine arts degree at West Virginia University in 1905, studied at the Art Students League alongside Georgia O’Keeffe, traveled to Paris, and cofounded the Provincetown Printers, the nation’s first woodblock print society. She is credited with developing the white-line woodcut technique known as the Provincetown Print, and her work is held by major institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.