Provincetown Dunes
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Broad, loose brushstrokes of brown, plum, sage green, and pale blue sweep across a cream ground, with angular black marks framing the composition at the edges. A dark triangular form sits near the center, surrounded by curving strokes of blue-green and olive. The painting is abstract but rooted in landscape, the dunes and sky of Provincetown broken down into planes and gestures that owe as much to the Cubism Lazzell studied in Paris as to what she saw out her studio window. She studied with Gleizes, Léger, and Lhote in the 1920s and spent the rest of her career working out that vocabulary against the Cape Cod landscape. The palette here is muted and earthy, the brushwork fast and confident.