Blanche Lazzell’s Lost Studio Garden: A Gallery Talk with Author Stephen Orr

Join us for “Blanche Lazzell’s Lost Studio Garden,” a gallery talk with author Stephen Orr. Included with $15 Museum admission (free for PAAM members).

The artist Blanche Lazzell created a horticultural paradise on an East End wharf in Provincetown that fed her creativity and provided floral subjects for her artwork over four decades. Garden author Stephen Orr will share archival images of the garden as well as quotes from Lazzell’s letters to her sister in which her love of gardening (and her beloved petunias) figure prominently.

Stephen Orr is the author of two garden books, Tomorrow’s Garden and The New American Herbal. His upcoming book, The Gardener’s Mindset, a collection of his garden essays and photographs, will be published by Clarkson Potter/Random House in April 2026. He is the former editor-in-chief of Better Homes and Gardens. Previously he was the garden editor at Martha Stewart Living, House & Garden, and Domino magazines. He lives with his husband in Truro and writes for the Provincetown Independent. IG: steporr

“Blanche Lazzell: Becoming An American Modernist” on view at PAAM through January 4, is organized by the Art Museum of West Virginia University and generously supported by Art Bridges.

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