Lu Duble, born Lucinda Davies, was an English-born American artist.
15 Facts About Lu Duble
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Lu Duble was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1937 and 1938, to study art and sculpture in Haiti.
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Lu Duble moved to the United States with her parents in 1903, as a young child.
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Lu Duble's mentors included Alexander Archipenko, Jose de Creeft, and Hans Hofmann.
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From 1918 to 1937, Duble was head of the sculpture program at Bennett Junior College in Millbrook, New York.
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Lu Duble taught sculpture classes at Brearley School, Dalton School, Greenwich House, and Montclair Art Museum.
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Lu Duble was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1937 and 1938, to study art and sculpture in Haiti.
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Lu Duble's best known works were human figures or heads, worked in stone, cement, and terracotta.
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Lu Duble's sculpture, "Calling the Loa, Haiti" won the Anna Hyatt Huntington Prize in 1938, and "Last Migration" won the Speyer Prize in 1952.
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Lu Duble had work in the fiftieth anniversary show of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors in 1939.
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Lu Duble was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors from 1937, a fellow of the National Sculpture Society, elected in 1937, and a member of the National Academy of Design from 1942.
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Lu Duble was part of a group of women artists called informally "the Guild ladies", including Dorothy Dehner, Helen Wilson, Rhys Caparn and Helena Simkhovitch.
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Lu Duble spent summers in Woodstock, New York in her later years.
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Lu Duble died in 1970, in Woodstock, aged 74 years.
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Lu Duble was survived by her sister, Gwen, an artist.