To appreciate art of any period, we must dismiss the idea that painting is a representation of natural form as seen with the eye. Natural form may be used as a means to expression, but never as an end in itself. When we try to paint an object "as natural as life" or as it appears to the eye, our work becomes a literal thing devoid of any poetical feeling. Art is not photography – it is an expression of the inner man. We find in the artist’s canvas his conception of life. His philosophy and his religion are revealed to the spectator who is able to read it.

-Blanche Lazzell

Blanche Lazzell: American Modernist, features a selection of paintings, drawings, original woodblocks and prints, illustrating the vast accomplishments of a visionary artist dedicated to modernism. Known as one of the first abstract painters in America and a leading exponent of the woodblock print, Lazzell expanded the vocabulary of twentieth-century art with her experiments with cubism. This exciting exhibition is the first gallery exhibition of her work in New York in fifteen years.