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17: 691: 68: 46:. The "Provincetown Print", a white-line woodcut print, was attributed to this group. Rather than creating separate woodblocks for each color, one block was made and painted. Small groves between the elements of the design created the white line. Because the artists often used soft colors, they sometimes have the appearance of a watercolor painting. 148:
and meeting with some surviving members, like Ferol Sibley Warthen, he learned the history about the Provincetown Print and later learned how to create works of art with the technique. Since then, he has promoted the white line woodcut technique in his historical research paper "Provincetown
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during the early 20th-century. It was the first group of its kind in the United States, developed in an area when European and American avant-garde artists visited in number after
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Printers: Genesis of a Unique Woodcut Tradition", taught and lectured about the technique, and has created and shown his version of the Provincetown Prints in exhibits.
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in the late 1970s, was asked to write an article about "printmaking in Provincetown", but by that time many of the artists were no longer alive. Through research with
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Art in narrow streets : the first thirty-three years of the Provincetown Art Association
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woodblock printing, though there is evidence that a lesser-known Provincetown artist,
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has been credited with developing the technique, based upon Japanese
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were a group of artists, most of them women, who created art using
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Edna Boies Hopkins: Strong in Character, Colorful in Expression
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An exhibit of 75 works of art from this group was held at the
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This technique is continued today by the Australian artist
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Blanche Lazzell
woodblock printing
Provincetown, Massachusetts
World War I
Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
ukiyo-e
Edith Lake Wilkinson
Blanche Lazzell

Agnes Weinrich
Ethel Mars
Ada Gilmore
Mildred McMillen
Maud Hunt Squire
Ellen Ravenscroft
Karl Knaths
Juliette S. Nichols
Agnes Weinrich
Tod Lindenmuth
Ferol Sibley Warthen
Marguerite Thompson Zorach
William Zorach
Edna Boies Hopkins
Art Academy of Cincinnati
Myron Stout
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Cressida Campbell
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer

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