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Having arrived in the United States from Eastern Europe as a child, Lawrence Mazzanovich got his start in the arts as a sign painter in Chicago. Instruction at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago garnered some success as a commercial artist, but his wife convinced him to pursue Fine Art. As a result, they moved to Paris, France, in 1903, the middle of La Belle Époque. Six years later, they left the romantic, bohemian lifestyle of Europe and joined an art colony in Westport, Connecticut.

Mazzanovich began to work on almost entirely impressionistic landscapes, and his burgeoning career as a brilliant colorist then brought him to the small art colony in Tryon, North Carolina, in 1923. He spent the rest of his life there, bumping shoulders with visiting artists like Josephine Couper and Elliott Daingerfield and finding success depicting the arresting but sentimental majesty of the Blue Ridge Mountains.