17 Facts About Lucile Lloyd

Lucile Lloyd, known as Lucile Lloyd Brown, Lucila Lloyd Nulty was an American muralist, illustrator, and decorative painter.

In 1937, Lloyd worked with the Works Progress Administration's Federal Arts Project to paint three murals in the assembly room in the state building in Los Angeles, California.

Lucile Lloyd's parents were Mary Alice and Harry Kensington Lloyd.

Lucile Lloyd apprenticed in her father's stained-glass and textile design studio.

Lucile Lloyd's English grandfather was a textile designer during the Arts and Crafts movement.

Lucile Lloyd attended school at the Woman's Art School at Cooper Union in New York City and won two scholarships to the Art Students League of New York.

Lucile Lloyd was the first woman to work in the drafting room of architect Bertram G Goodhue and painted her first mural decoration at the age of twenty.

In 1919 Lucile Lloyd married Addison Brown II, son of Addison Brown.

Lucile Lloyd moved with her husband and son to California in 1919.

Lucile Lloyd opened a studio, taught classes and took the role of directorship of the Stickney Memorial Art School in Pasadena.

Lucile Lloyd worked as a muralist and decorator and produced bookplates, cartoons, logos, water color, charcoal, architectural renderings and stained-glass designs.

Lucile Lloyd worked with many well-known architectural firms including Howard Hewitt, Marsh, Smith, and Powell, Carleton Monroe Wilson, and the West Coast office of Bertam Goodhue.

Lucile Lloyd goes on to stress that muralists such as herself be included from the onset of a project.

Lucile Lloyd was one of six artists who submitted drawings for the murals at Griffith Observatory.

Lucile Lloyd was a member of the California Art Club, Women Painters of the West, American Bookplate Society and the California State Historical Association.

Lucile Lloyd married her second husband Niel McNulty in 1936, who died in 1939.

Lucile Lloyd committed suicide in February 1941, "overcome by gas".