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The White Sail

(American, 1878–1956)
1919, printed 1926
Medium/TechniqueColor woodcut
DimensionsBlock: 28.3 × 28.3 cm (11 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 35.6 × 33 cm (14 × 13 in.)
Credit LineThe Leslie and Johanna Garfield Collection—Partial gift of Leslie and Johanna Garfield and Museum purchase with funds from the Charles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund and John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund
Accession number2022.1497
On View
On view
ClassificationsPrints
Inscriptionsrecto: "The White Sail / Blanche Lazzell--1926" verso: "To Noah Cornelius Lazzell Ridgway / from Aunt Pet. A souvenir from Provincetown / on his first visit Sept. 1926. With love and kisses to my Honey Boy / Blanche Lazzell / The White Sail / Aug. 13, 1926 / Blanche Lazzell / 154/5"
ProvenanceGift of the artist to her nephew Noah Cornelius Lazzell Ridgway (b. 1924). By 1988, sold by Grace Martin Taylor (b. 1903 – d. 1995) to Leslie and Johanna Garfield, New York; 2022, sold by Leslie Garfield, New York to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 22, 2022)
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