Blanche Lazzell was one of America’s most important artists: She is credited as the first female abstract artist in America, and also among the finest and best-known artists of the white line printmaking genre, today referred to as “The Provincetown Print.” In 1912, Lazzell travelled to Paris, discovered modern art in the Societe du Salon d'automne, which immediately inspired her to rethink her own work. She returned to the United States in 1914, venturing to Provincetown in 1915 where she studied for two summers with Charles Webster Hawthorne and later with Oliver Chaffee, who taught her the white line print method.