one pass - Blanche Lazzell

Two minutes. Suzann Geringer knows what a single pass through the press can achieve. As a print maker she has built up many images with multiple passes on her own press. She has done collograph, etchings, dry point on plastic, and chine colle.

For that reason she was very impressed at the SINGLE PASS impression Blanche Lazzell had achieved. In this clip, Geringer shows her surprise and Katelyn Crawford explains how the many parts of the Provincetown block were inked in many colors first and then run through the press in a single pass. One can observe that the grain of the many inked wood block portions go the same direction.  

The Lazzell color woodcut was part of "The 1930s In Prints" exhibition at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, in April of 2017.