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Biography |
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1878 |
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Born Nettie Blanche Lazzell on October 10th in Maidsville, West Virginia |
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1901 - 1905 |
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Studies painting at West Virginia University and obtains degrees in liberal arts, literature, and fine arts |
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1907 - 1908 |
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Moves to New York City; studies with William Merritt Chase at the Arts Students League in a class that includes Georgia O’Keeffe |
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1912 - 1913 |
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Travels to Europe and settles in Paris; attends the Academie Julian and Academie Moderne in Paris; visits Italy, studies old masters painting |
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1913 - 1914 |
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Returns to West Virginia and opens her own art school |
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1915 - 1916 |
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Moves to Provincetown, Massachusetts, an art colony; studies with Charles Hawthorne at the Cape Cod School of Art; exhibits at the Provincetown Art Association; works with single-block color woodcut; becomes important member of the Provincetown art community |
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1916 - 1917 |
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Returns to New York City; summers in Woodstock, New York, an art colony where she studies with William Zorach and Oliver Newberry Chaffee, who teaches her white line color woodcuts; she becomes a leading figure in the color woodblock print in America |
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1918 - 1919 |
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Exhibits with Provincetown Printers Group and the Provincetown Art |
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1920 |
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Exhibits at the Boston Art Club where Charles Demuth admires her work |
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1921 |
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Exhibits at the Society of Independent Artists, New York |
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1923 - 1924 |
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Moves to Paris at age forty-five; studies Cubism with Albert Gleizes, Fernand Leger, and Andre L’hote; participates in group exhibitions at the Salon d’Automne, Paris (exhibits there annually for next six years); Leger writes an essay specifically for Lazzell; takes private lessons with Gleizes in 1924 who teaches her “Golden Section” principles of form and space; her work becomes increasingly abstract and cubist |
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1925 |
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Returns to Morgantown, West Virginia, never to visit Europe again |
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1926 - 1927 |
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Returns to Provincetown and builds a studio where she teaches art; starts dividing time between Provincetown and Morgantown; exhibits at Brooklyn Museum, New York |
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1928 - 1929 |
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Invited to become a member of the Societe Anonyme (founded in 1920 by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Katherine Dreier to promote modern and abstract art in America); exhibits at the Los Angeles Museum, 1929 |
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1930 |
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Exhibition at the Rhode Island School of Design |
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1933 |
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Depression forces return to Morgantown for employment by the Public Works of Art and the WPA; paints a mural in Morgantown court room (now in Morgantown Public Library) |
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1936 - 1937 |
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Exhibits at Museum of Modern Art, New York; studies with Hans Hofmann |
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1940 - 1942 |
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Participates in group exhibitions: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Whitney Museum, New York; National Academy of Art, New York |
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1943 |
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Visits Hans Hofmann in New York |
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1944 |
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Exhibits at Ravenscroft Gallery, New York |
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1946 |
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Exhibits at the Seligmann Gallery, New York |
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1949 |
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Attends Hofmann’s criticism classes |
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1956 |
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Dies June 1st in Morgantown, West Virginia |
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