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Finding Aid for the Lucile Lloyd papers, circa 1929-circa 1941 0000152
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  • Custodial History note
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  • Biographical/Historical note
  • Scope and Content note
  • Related Archival Materials note

  • Title: Lucile Lloyd papers
    Identifier/Call Number: 0000152
    Contributing Institution: Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 15.0 Linear feet (3 boxes and 3 flat file drawers)
    Date (inclusive): circa 1929-circa 1941
    Location note: Boxes 1-2/ADC - regular Box 3/ADC - oversize*
    creator: Lloyd, Lucile, 1894-1941

    Access

    Open for use by qualified researchers.

    Custodial History note

    Gift of Lawrence S. Nordhof, 1985.

    Preferred Citation note

    Lucile Lloyd papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

    Biographical/Historical note

    Lucile Lloyd was an artist who worked in Southern California, primarily in Los Angeles and Pasadena. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on August 20, 1894. Lloyd apprenticed with her father, Harry K. Lloyd, at his stained-glass and textile design studio. She attended the Women’s Art School at Cooper Union in New York City where she studied with Frank Fairbanks, Eugene Savage, Robert K. Ryland, Frederick Deilman, and Joseph C. Chase. After graduating art school, Lloyd was the only women to work in the drafting room of architect Bertram G. Goodhue where she did architectural decorative work. In 1921, Lloyd opened her own studio in Pasadena, where she taught art classes and directed the Stickney Memorial School of Art. She received several commissions for private residences, as well as churches and public buildings between 1921 and 1937. During the 1930s, Lloyd worked for the Works Progress Administration as a muralist. Her more notable mural projects include the three murals that she did for the California State Building in Los Angeles, entitled California's Name; as well as murals at the Griffith Park Observatory, The Madonna of the Covered Wagon at South Pasadena Junior High School, and a mural at the Queen of Angels Church in Hollywood. During her career, 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 committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 46.

    Scope and Content note

    The Lucile Lloyd papers span 15 linear feet and date from circa 1929 to circa 1941. The collection is primarily composed of black-and-white photographs of Lloyd’s work as well as preliminary sketches, presentation boards, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, correspondence, textile swatches, and Lloyd’s typewritten essays and poetry.

    Related Archival Materials note

    Lucile Lloyd papers, Archives of American Art.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Lloyd, Lucile, 1894-1941
    Architecture -- California
    Interior design
    Mural painting and decoration--20th century
    Photographic prints
    Presentation drawings (proposals)
    Scrapbooks
    Sketches