10 Facts About Lucy L'Engle

Lucy L'Engle was an American painter who had an abstract style that ranged from Cubist to representational to purely abstract.

Lucy L'Engle was born in Manhattan on September 26,1889, to a wealthy real estate broker and his wife.

Lucy L'Engle contributed paintings to subsequent exhibitions in 1920 through 1923,1925, and 1936.

In 1925 Lucy L'Engle was invited to show in a Parisian exhibition of Cubist paintings called L'Art Aujourd'hui that included the principal French exponents of that style.

Lucy L'Engle showed in the society's exhibition of 1926 and in most later years until 1949.

Lucy L'Engle showed paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts annual of 1934 and showed prints in a group exhibition at the Grant Gallery in 1939.

Lucy L'Engle's idea is to show, by example, that costly materials are not necessary for creation.

Lucy L'Engle became interested in archaic Greek statues in the 1960s and, during that period, exhibited drawings of pieces she found in the Athens Museum.

Lucy L'Engle had three brothers, Archibald Manning Brown, an architect; Lathrop Brown, a real estate executive who became a USCongressman for New York; and Charles Stelle Brown, Jr.

Lucy L'Engle donated many of his paintings and drawings to museums.