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...