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Violet Petunias

(American, 1878–1956)
1931
Medium/TechniqueColor woodcut (white-line)
DimensionsBlock: 29.5 × 35.2 cm (11 5/8 × 13 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 39.4 × 43.8 cm (15 1/2 × 17 1/4 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 number2022.1541
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
Inscriptionsrecto: "Violet Petunias / Blanche Lazzell--1931" verso: "Wood Block Print / Blanche Lazzell Provincetown Mass / Composed and block cut Nov. 1931 / "Violet Petunia" / Taken from the block Nov. 28, 1931 / 325 no from all blocks--2 no from this block / 325/2"
ProvenanceSold by the artist to her niece, Frances Reed Sellers (b. 1927 – d. 2015). 1989, sold by Hirschl & Adler, New York, 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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