Known for her cubist imagery in painting and printmaking, Grace Martin (b. 1903 - d. 1995) was born in Morgantown, West Virginia. She was a life-long student, learning from such renowned artists as her elder distant cousin, Blanche Lazzell and the German-born, abstract impressionist Hans Hofmann. In 1929 she visited Provincetown at the invitation of Lazzell, who coached her in the technique of white-line block printing, also called “Provincetown Printmaking”. Although she always considered herself primarily a painter, she began making white-line woodcuts, renewing her passion in the arts and establishing her career as an artist. She was a graduate of West Virginia University and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

She returned to Provincetown every summer for the following 28 years, in which she became a founder of the American Color Print Society. She later founded the Woodcut Society in Kansas City. She was one of the first artist-in-residence of The Greenbrier Art Colony from 1938-1940. However, her home-base remained in Charleston, West Virginia, where she had a fruitful career in education, teaching at the Mason College of Music and Fine Arts (now the University of Charleston), where she taught for over 40 years, eventually becoming the dean and retiring in 1968. She became nationally known as one of America's great print makers, exhibiting at such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian, and The British Museum. She also was featured at the National Gallery's exhibit of Great American Print Makers of the 20th-Century.

Paragon is proud to be the only gallery working directly with the executor of the Grace Martin Estate, which gives us exclusive access to a catalog that is not available to anyone else. We currently offer a broad scope of her work from one of a kind paintings, colleges, drawings to her classic numbered series of "Provincetown Prints".  All work comes with certificates of authenticity.