Pinned Specimen, inspired by Blanche Lazzell’s hollyhocks paintings and prints, is part of a tribute to the early 20th century artist, printmaker, and gardener. This original digital artwork by Linda Gribko was created using a photo of maroon and white hollyhocks taken in a 2026 recreation of Lazzell’s studio garden at the West Virginia Botanic Garden near Morgantown. The finished piece is meant to invoke a vintage seed packet in a nod to Lazzell’s habit of collecting and selling seeds from her garden.

This fine art card is 5.25″ by 5.25″, printed on acid-free paper using pigment inks. It’s museum-quality and absolutely frameable. Choose a blank note card or birthday card with Happy Birthday! printed inside. The original photo is printed on the back of the card with a story about the artwork and Blanche Lazzell’s Hollyhocks painting.

About the art. The digital hollyhock collage on this card, titled Pinned Specimen, was created from a photo taken at the West Virginia Botanic Garden in Morgantown. As part of a summer 2026 exhibition of Blanche Lazzell’s white-line woodblock prints, hollyhocks joined other bold annual plants in a recreation of the artist’s iconic Provincetown, Massachusetts, studio garden.

A native of Maidsville, West Virginia, Blanche Lazzell (1878-1956) was one of the state’s most influential artists. Best known for her modernist woodblock prints, Lazzell produced both abstract and two-dimensional figurative works composed of simple lines and blocks of color outlined in unprinted write.

Lazzell also painted in oils; one of her most well-known paintings is simply titled Hollyhocks (1917). Tall sprays of hollyhock are rendered in bright daubs of red, pink, and peach against the shell pink end wall of a house. Painted in the Fauvist style, elements of the painting are edged in dark hues, rather than white.

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