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Mary Cassatt

Date: 1890–91

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1994.5

Text Entries: Ives, Colta Feller. <i>The Great Wave: The Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints</i>. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974. Text pp. 45–55 (discusses Mary Cassatt print <i>Maternal Caress, </i>cited specifically on pp. 48–49).<br><br> Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. <i>The Graphic Work of Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné</i>. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979. No. 150, p. 64; ill. p. 146 (color). <br><br> Getlin, Frank. <i>Mary Cassatt: Paintings and Prints</i>. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980. Text p. 90; ill. p. 91 (color impression from The National Gallery of Art).<br><br> Mathews, Nancy Mowll and Barbara Stern Shapiro. <i>Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints</i>. (exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts). Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. No. 12, pp. 140-44.<br><br> <i>Maternal Caress, </i>Mary Cassatt. Collection Cameo sheet, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, February 1995. Ill. (black & white). [specific reference to Terra print]<br><br> <i>Regard sur cinq années d'expositions</i> (<i>Five years of Exhibitions at a Glance</i>). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 1997. Text p. 113; ill. p. 108 (color). [specific reference to Terra print]<br><br> Barter, Judith A. <i>Mary Cassatt, Modern Woman</i>. (exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago). Chicago, Illinois: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998. No. 63, p. 285 (color impression from The Art Institute of Chicago, acc. no. 1932.1288).<br><br> Mancoff, Debra N. <i>Mary Cassatt: Reflections of Women's Lives</i>. London, England: Frances Lincoln, 1998. Text p. 88; ill. p. 89 (color). [specific reference to Terra print]<br><br> <i>Mary Cassatt: Impressions</i>. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2005; Paris: Le Passage Paris–New York Éditions, 2005. Text p. 56 (checklist); ill. p. 59 (color). Vanessa Lecomte, editor. <i>Portrait of a Lady : peinture et photographies américains </i> (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny and Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2008. Text (checklist) p. 93.

Blanche Lazzell

Date: 1919 (block cut), 1931 (printed)

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1996.32

Text Entries: Blanche Lazzell was born ninth in a family of ten children in rural West Virginia in 1878. By 1905 she had earned a remarkable three college degrees, and would continue to enjoy being a student throughout her life, both in Europe and the United States; as late as her sixties she studied abstract painting with artist and teacher Hans Hoffman. Lazzell is best known for color prints like Still Life, pulled from a single wood block, a process developed in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1915. A woodblock print executed in the traditional, Japanese-inspired manner requires a different block for each color; in contrast, the more expedient "white line technique" or "Provincetown print" utilizes a single block whose carved shapes, each colored individually, are separated by a groove that produces a white line on paper. Lazzell produced very few figurative works, concentrating instead on exploring geometric cubism and the bright coastal colors of her adopted home of Provincetown both through still lifes and landscapes.