Lucy L'Engle

Lucy in her studio in NYC
1925 photo by Peter A.Juley & Son, NY, NY
 Lucy Brown L'Engle was born on September 26, 1889 to an affluent New York City family. Her father, Charles Stelle Brown was a very successful real estate broker in Manhattan for over 50 years. The firm is still active today as Brown, Harris, & Stevens. Her mother, Lucy Barnes Brown, was the first U.S. Women’s Amateur Golf Champion in 1893. Lucy’s brother, former New York congressman Lathrop Brown, was Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s roommate at both Groton, a prep school in Massachusetts, and at Harvard University. They were such close friends that Lathrop was FDR’s best man at his wedding to Eleanor. Reportedly, FDR proposed to Lucy a few years before his marriage to Eleanor, however, Lucy declined. Instead of following a life in “high society” she showed early signs of a woman who possessed an independent mind, and chose a life devoted to the study of art.

Family records indicate that Lucy may have visited Provincetown as early as 1909 to study with Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872-1930) at his Cape Cod School of Art. In 1911 she attended the Art Students League in New York City studying with George Brandt Bridgman (1864-1943), and others. In 1913 she furthered her studies in Paris at the Academie Julian where she studied with the cubist painter, Albert Gleizes (1881-1953).

SELECTED WORKS BY LUCY L'ENGLE


Portrait of
Helen "Henka" Sawyer
1917, Oil on canvas
35 x 30

Picasso-esque
1919, Oil on canvas
28 x 23

Bathers
1923, Oil on canvas
28 x 23

Cubist Village
1923, Oil on canvas
24 x 20

Cluny Garden
1923, Watercolor,
18 x 12

Boats on the beach
at Cavalier
1923, Oil on canvas,
23 x 29

Cubist Village II
1923, Oil on canvas
25 1/4 x 21

Still Life
1927, Oil on board
29 x 23

Standing Figure
1927, Oil on board
60 x 24

Martha Graham Dance Composition
1931, Oil on board
29 3/4 x 39 3/4

The Ancient Harpooner
1935, Oil on board
23 1/2 x 19 1/2

Still Life Hiram
1935, Lithograph
12 x 8 3/4

In Cuba
1935, Lithograph
11 1/4 x 9 1/2

Royal Palms, Cuba
1938, Oil on board
31/2 x 19 1/2

St. John's River,
Bull Hiding
1940, Watercolor
13 1/2 x 19 1/2

Castillo de San Marco, St. Augustine
1940, Watercolor
13 3/4 x 19 3/4

Fruit
1940, Lithograph
9 3/4 x 12

Long Leaf Pines, Florida
1942, Oil on Board
19 1/4 x 15 3/8

St. Augustine
Brahma Bulls
1944, Gouache
13 x 20

Two Nuns
1944, Watercolor
14 x 19

Cemetery at New Marlboro, MA
1945, Oil on board
20 x 16

St. Augustine Flight Out of Woods
1946, Watercolor
19 3/4 x 15

Swimming with
the Dolphins
1948, Watercolor
19 x 23

Cat Island Truro
1948 Lucy L'Engle
Oil on board
8 x 10

St. Augustine Shells
1948, Watercolor
18 x 25

Electrifying Truro
1949, Oil on board
23 3/4 x 19 1/2

Spring Brook
1950, Oil on board
16 x 19 3/4

Abstraction
1950, Oil on board
9 x 12

Abstract Composition
1951, Watercolor and ink on paper
11 3/4 x 8 3/4

This Machine World
1951, Watercolor
16 x 20

Les Alembiques
1952, Watercolor
16 x 20

Dreamlike
1953, Watercolor
18 1/2 x 22

Symbols
1953, Watercolor
17 x 10 3/4

Invention #3
1956, Watercolor
13 x 20

Reclining Tito
1960, Oil on board
18 x 42

Abstraction
1963, Watercolor/Collage
19 x 22