Finding Aid for the Lucile Lloyd papers, circa 1929-circa 1941
0000152
Finding aid prepared by Chris Marino; revised by Ananya Madiraju
The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered
through the Council on Library and Information Resources “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives” Project.
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Arts Building Room 1434
University of California
Santa Barbara, California, 93106-7130
805-893-2724
adc@museum.ucsb.edu
04/2018
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
Professional Papers I.
1915-1940
Physical Description:
3.0 Linear feet
Scope and Contents note
This series contains the majority of articles and clippings about Lucile Lloyd and her mural work. It also contains letters,
reference materials, and some writings by Lloyd about her work.
Newspaper/Article Clippings A.
1921-1940
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet
Scope and Contents note
This sub-series contains newspaper clippings and artcles pertaining to work done by Lucile Lloyd throughout the Los Angeles
region.
Box 1, Folder 15
Architects Building Materials Exhibition (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1931
Box 1, Folder 17
"Art News Begins Series of Personality Sketches"
1934
Box 1, Folder 18
Broadway Department Store (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1934
Box 1, Folder 41
California Art Club Bulletin Newsletter
1932
Box 1, Folder 19
California State Building "California's Name" Mural (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1936
Box 1, Box 20
Civic Mural Art Show
1934
Box 1, Folder 21
Furnishings Committee and Advertisement
1929
Box 1, Folder 22
Goodhue, Bertram Obituary
1924
Box 1, Folder 23
Inglewood Park Cemetary Mausoleum 720 E. Florence Ave. (Inglewood, Calif.)
1940
Box 1, Folder 24
Ives and Warren Mortuary 100 North Hill Ave. (Pasadena, Calif.)
1929
Box 1, Folder 25
First Methodist Episcopal Church (Santa Ana, Calif.)
1929
Box 2, Folder 10
Hanson House Great Hall (Flintridge, Calif.)
1922
creator:
Hewitt, Henry Harwood
Box 1, Folder 27
"Los Angeles Mural Painter Stimulates Public Interest in Art" from
Architect and Engineer
July 1931
creator:
Winslow, Carleton Monroe, 1876-1946
Box 1, Folder 28
"Large Homes Decorated by Woman Mural Artist"
1930
Box 1, Folder 29
Miscellaneous Clippings
1935
Box 1, Folder 30
"Miss Kearney Opens New Piano School"
1934
Box 1, Folder 31
"Mural Decorators Organize"
1933
Box 1, Folder 32
"Mural Rows Due to Artists' Failure to Understand Job"
1935
Box 1, Folder 33
National Air Race Poster Competition
1936
Box 1, Folder 35
Potboilers Production of "The Little Clay Cart"
1926
Box 2, Folder 15
"Pius Enthroned as Pope" - Los Angeles Examiner
March 13, 1939
Box 1, Folder 37
Savage, Eugene exhibition of painitngs brochure
1933
Box 1, Folder 38
Stickney Memorial School Openings
1921-1922
Box 1, Folder 39
St. Mary of the Angeles Church (Los Feliz, Calif.)
1933-1934
Box 1, Folder 40
Stoneman Elementary School (San Marino, Calif.)
1930
creator:
Marsh, Smith, and Powell.
Box 2, Folder 16
Stoneman Elementary School kindergarten room (San Marino, Calif.)
1931
Box 2, Folder 17
South Pasadena Junior High School (South Pasadena, Calif.)
1929
Box 1, Folder 42
"The Lee Side of LA" Columns
1931,1932,1940
Box 2, Folder 18
"These Competent Women" Saturday Night
August 27, 1938
Box 1, Folder 43
Trinity Church (Claremont, Ohio)
undated
Box 2, Folder 19
"When Artists Act Up", Los Angeles Times
July 2, 1939
References B.
1918-1934
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
Scope and Contents note
This sub-series contains reference materials related to Lucile Lloyd's work, such as biographical information and list of
buildings. It also contains some articles and materials used by Lloyd in her work.
Box 1, Folder 1
Biographical Information
1930
Box 1, Folder 44
"A Brief History of Printing" Workbook
undated
Box 1, Folder 45
"A Guide to Civilized Loafing" by H.A Overstreet
undated
Box 1, Folder 46
"Applications As She Are Wrote"
undated
Box 1, Folder 47
"A Prayer" by E. Burdette Backus
1932
Box 1, Folder 48
Broadway Department Store, Inc.
1934
Box 1, Folder 50
"Just for Today" by Hugh Barret Dobbs
1927
Box 1, Folder 51
List of Buildings Decorated
1918-1934
Box 1, Folder 52
List of Speeches Delivered
1929-1933
Box 1, Folder 53
List of Loaned Materials
1933-1934
Box 1, Folder 54
Miscellaneous Notes
undated
Box 1, Folder 55
"Noah An' Jonah An' Cap'n John Smith"
undated
Box 1, Folder 56
Notes on Human Temperment
undated
Box 3
Phil May's Sketchbook
undated
Box 1, Folder 13
St. Mary of the Angels theater program (Los Feliz, Calif.)
1940
Box 1, Folder 57
"Survival of the Fittest"
undated
Box 1, Folder 58
"The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran
1923
Box 1, Folder 59
"To make a Rose Jar"
undated
Letters C.
1915-1940
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
Scope and Contents note
This sub-series contains letters to and from Lucile Lloyd, including letters of recommendation from architectural firm Marsh,
Smith and Powell, and Careleton Winslow.
Box 1, Folder 60
American Federation of Arts
1933
Box 1, Folder 61
Anderson, Henning E.
1937
Box 1, Folder 62
Banning, Mrs. Hancock
1937
Box 1, Folder 64
California Department of Public Works
1931
Box 1, Folder 65
Dillon, Charles
March 21, 1937
Box 1, Folder 66
First Methodist Episcopal Church
1929
Box 1, Folder 69
Los Angeles Examiner
1933, 1939
Box 1, Folder 72
Marsh, Smith and Powell
1928, 1940
Box 1, Folder 74
New York Probation and Protective Association
1915
Box 1, Folder 75
Pergarro, S.
December 29, 1933
Box 1, Folder 76
Saturday Night / Harry Howard
September 12, 1938
Box 1, Folder 78
Winslow, Carleton M.
1930
Bin 1, Folder 79
Souther Calif. Chapter of the AIA
1932
Papers/Essays D.
1928-1940
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet
Scope and Contents note
This sub-series contains materials written by Lloyd discussing the meaning of specific murals. It also contains papers written
by Frances B. Nordhoff.
Box 1, Folder 89
"A Very Private Utopia" by Stuart Chase
1928
Box 1, Folder 90
Broadway Department Store
1934
Frances B. Nordhoff Papers
Box 2, Folder 11
Swiss Family Dreyfus
undated
Scope and Contents note
Nordhoff, Frances B. Papers
Box 2, Folder 12
Articles on cotton
undated
Scope and Contents note
Nordhoff, Frances B. Papers
Box 1, Folder 81
"Does the Sun Make the Wind?"
after 1941
Scope and Contents note
Nordhoff, Frances B. Papers
Box 1, Folder 82
Fabric swatches
undated
Scope and Contents note
Nordhoff, Frances B. Papers
Box 1, Folder 83
"How a Plane Flies"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Nordhoff, Frances B. Papers
Box 1, Folder 84
"Plymouth Weaving Stunts"
November 1940
Scope and Contents note
Nordhoff, Frances B. Papers
Box 1, Folder 85
Illustrated list of stiches
undated
Scope and Contents note
Nordhoff, Frances B. Papers
Box 2, Folder 13
Articles about Silk
undated
Scope and Contents note
Nordhoff, Frances B. Papers
Box 1, Folder 86
"Textiles"
circa 1940
Scope and Contents note
Nordhoff, Frances B. Papers
Box 1, Folder 87
"Travel By Water"
1940
Scope and Contents note
Nordhoff, Frances B. Papers
Box 1, Folder 88
"Wool" by Laura Oftedal
1940
Scope and Contents note
Nordhoff, Frances B. Papers
Box 2, Folder 14
Articles on Wool
undated
Scope and Contents note
Nordhoff, Frances B. Papers
Box 1, Folder 91
"Don't Shoot - I'll Come Down" by J.W Riley
undated
Box 1, Folder 92
South Pasadena Junior High School (South Pasadena, Calif)
1928
Box 1, Folder 93
St. Mary of the Angels Church (Los Feliz, Calif.)
1933
Box 1, Folder 94
Stoneman Elementary School (San Marino, Calif.)
1928
Box 3
"This Week Magazine" Materials
1939
Projects II.
1914-1940
Physical Description:
12.0 Linear feet
Scope and Contents note
The Projects series contains the bulk of the materials in the collection. The drawings sub-series contains sketches, renderings,
and paintings from many of Lucile Lloyds' projects. The scrapbooks feature clippings and sketches, and the photographs highlight
some of her more well-known work.
Photographs A.
1922-1940
Physical Description:
1.0 Linear feet
Scope and Contents note
This sub-series contains photographs of projects completed by Lloyd.
Box 1, Folder 2
Architects Building Materials Exhibition Architects Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1934
creator:
Padilla Studios.
Box 1, Folder 4
Broadway Department Store "Mickey Mouse Goes Fishing" Mural (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1934
creator:
Dick Whittington Studio.
Box 1, Folder 5
Broadway Department Store rug department (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1934
creator:
Dick Whittington Studio.
Box 1, Folder 7
California State Building "California's Name" Mural (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1936-1937
Box 1, Folder 8
Celotex Co. "Beowulf and the Dragon" Design - Architects Building Materials Exhibit (Los Anegles, Calif.)
1933
Box 1, Folder 9
East Whittier Elementary School (East Whittier, Calif.)
1932
Box 2, Folder 1
El Centro Elementary School auditorium ceiling (South Pasadena, Calif.)
1931
creator:
Luckhaus Studio.
creator:
Marsh, Smith, and Powell.
Box 2, Folder 2
First Baptist Church chapel (Pasadena, Calif.)
1930
creator:
Luckhaus Studio.
creator:
Winslow, Carleton Monroe, 1876-1946
Scope and Contents note
Architect: Frederick, Kennedy Jr. Assoc.
Box 1, Folder 10
First Methodist Episcoal Church Chapel ceiling (Santa Ana, Calif.)
1929
creator:
Marsh, Smith, and Powell.
Box 2, Folder 3
Hanson, W.P. great hall (Flintridge Calif.)
1922
creator:
Hewitt, Henry Harwood
Scope and Contents note
Architects: Harwood, Newitt
Box 2, Folder 8
Ives and Warren Mortuary slumber room (Pasadena, Calif.)
1929
creator:
Kennedy, Frederick
Scope and Contents note
Architects: Frederick, Kennedy Jr.
Box 1, Folder 3
Lloyd, Lucile portraits "Artist At Work"
undated
Box 2, Folder 5
Mannings Restaurant (Long Beach, Calif.)
1931
Box 2, Folder 6
Mannings Restaurant (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1933
Box 1, Folder 12
Ojai Presbyterian Church (Ojai,Calif.)
1931
creator:
Luckhaus Studio.
creator:
Winslow, Carleton Monroe, 1876-1946
Scope and Contents note
Photograph of proposed mural decoration
Box 2, Folder 7
South Pasadena Junior High School auditorium (South Pasadena, Calif.)
1928
creator:
Luckhaus Studio.
creator:
Marsh, Smith, and Powell.
Scope and Contents note
Architects: Marsh, Smith and Powell
Box 2, Folder 9
St. Mary of the Angels Church (Hollywood, Calif.)
1932-1933
creator:
Faxon, Floyd
creator:
Winslow, Carleton Monroe, 1876-1946
Scope and Contents note
Architect: Carleton Monroe Winslow
Box 2, Folder 4
Stoneman Elementary School kindergarten room (San Marino, Calif.)
1930
creator:
Luckhaus Studio.
creator:
Marsh, Smith, and Powell.
Scope and Contents note
Architects: Marsh, Smith and Powell
Box 3
Unidentified man on horse
undated
Box 1, Folder 14
Unidentified portrait of "Marion"
1940
Box 3
Unidenitified stained glass window
undated
Scrapbooks and sketchbooks B.
undated
Physical Description:
2.0 Linear feet
Scope and Contents note
This sub-series contains scrapbooks made by Lloyd of various projects and includes newspaper clippings, event openings, and
copies of photographs of murals.
Box 3
California's Name Mural History Scrapbook
1937
Box 3
Californian News: Spiral Sketchbook
circa 1934
Box 3
Church of St. Mary of the Angels Scrapbook
undated
Drawings C.
1914-1936
Physical Description:
9.0 Linear feet
Scope and Contents note
This sub-series contains sketches, drawings, and paintings from Lloyd's early school days up through her professional career.
Some items are grouped together, such as charcoal studies, others are single items, based on subject.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 1
Airplane Prints - Francis Nordhoff
undated
Scope and Contents note
Paper prints of early 20th century aircrafts.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 3
Architectural Ornament
undated
Scope and Contents note
Pencil study with Chinese white design after Morris-Poppy.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 2
Architectural Ornaments
undated
Scope and Contents note
Painted blue, red, and yellow ornamental design on paper.
Drawer 216, FlatFile 1
Architectural Sketches
undated
Scope and Contents note
Three architectural drawings with pen on board.
Drawer 216, FlatFile 2
Associated Interior Decorators
undated
Scope and Contents note
Four insignias with finished designs using watercolor and pencil on board.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 4
Beam and Rafter Design
undated
Scope and Contents note
Floral pattern painted on cardboard.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 21
Black and White Finger Paintings
undated
Scope and Contents note
Two black and white finger paintings.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 14
"Brea,Water and Cavenga" Murals
undated
Scope and Contents note
Preliminary watercolor sketch of architecture, on board.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 5
California Black Association - Walker and Eisen
undated
Scope and Contents note
Proposed decoration for a theater side wall - watercolor painting of buidling entryways on paper board.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 6
California State Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1936
Scope and Contents note
Written work schedules on thick cut paper.
Drawer 216, FlatFile 3
California Institute of Technology astrophysics laboratory (Pasadena, Calif.)
undated
Scope and Contents note
Watercolor painting of Astrophysics Laboratory on board.
Box 1, Folder 6
"California's Name" Mural
circa 1935
Scope and Contents note
First rough draft drawing
Drawer 216, FlatFile 4
Charcoal Studies - Male and Female Heads
undated
Scope and Contents note
Six charcoal studies of unidentifiable male and female heads.
Drawer 216, FlatFile 5
Characoal Studies from Artists Student League
1914-1917
Scope and Contents note
Eleven charcoal studies of miscellaneous objects.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 7
Color Wheel
undated
Scope and Contents note
Color chart gradient with specific studies of black, green and yellow.
Drawer 214, FlatFile 1
"Columbine and Pierrot"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Painted red, blue, and yellow wallpaper depicting two circus performers.
Drawer 216, FlatFile 6
Decorative Borders
undated
Scope and Contents note
Single strip of a decorative border.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 8
Father Neptune and the Mermaid
undated
Scope and Contents note
Pencil sketches of merman/maid.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 12
Figure Studies
undated
Scope and Contents note
Pencil sketches of figural representations.
Drawer 216, FlatFile 7
First Baptist Church Chapel (Pasadena, Calif.)
1930
Scope and Contents note
Watercolor sketch and layout of the Fiurst Baptist Church Chapel.
Drawer 216, FlatFile 8
"Indian Fakir"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Presumed charcoal portrait of Max Factors.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 9
Mannings Coffee Stores (Long Beach, Calif.)
1931
Scope and Contents note
Completed diamond-shaped monogram.
Drawer 216, FlatFile 9
Map of California
undated
Scope and Contents note
Iconographic sketch of map of California.
Box 1, Folder 11
Max Factor "Hints on the Art of Make-Up" brochures
1929-1930
Drawer 216, FlatFile 10
Miscellaneous Sketches - Dragon, Birds, and Floral
undated
Scope and Contents note
Four drawings of miscellaneous sktches of dragons, birds, and floral patterns.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 10
Miscellaneous Sketches (Los Angeles, Calif.)
undated
Scope and Contents note
Miscellanous sketches including draft for State Capitol Building.
Drawer 216, FlatFile 11
Henry, Mrs. Philip W. house great hall ceiling (Scarborough, NY)
pre 1921
Scope and Contents note
Pencil and watercolor sketch of the Great Hall ceiling on board.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 22
"Nymph and Satyr/Pan"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Two triangular color studies of a nymph and satyr.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 11
Pacific Colony State Hospital (Spadra, Calif.)
1931
Scope and Contents note
Cartoon for stencil pattern "A" for ceiling of hospital.
Drawer 214, FlatFile 2
Portfolio- Fish
undated
Scope and Contents note
Black and earthen brown painting of fish with patterns on double-sided foldable board.
Drawer 214, FlatFile 3
Portfolio- Floral
undated
Scope and Contents note
Red and deep yellow floral pattern on double sided cardboard with red cloth tied to the sides.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 15
Prints of Various Artworks
undated
Scope and Contents note
Paper prints of various artists and artworks.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 13
"Russian Armor Co."
undated
Scope and Contents note
Pencil sketch on tracing paper.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 16
Schoolwork Sketches
undated
Scope and Contents note
Charcoal and graphite sketches of still lifes, figures, and profiles.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 25
Sketch of House and Grounds
undated
Scope and Contents note
Unfinished watercolor sketchof house and grounds on board.
Drawer 214, FlatFile 4
Sketches of South America and California
undated
Scope and Contents note
Nine sketches and drawings of South American and Californian maps with iconic representations.
Drawer 216, FlatFile 12
South Pasadena High School - Proposed Decoration of Auditorium (South Pasadena, Calif.)
1931
Scope and Contents note
Watercolor and pencil sketch of proposed decoration in auditorium.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 17
Stained Glass Windows: "Crucifixtion with Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist" and "Virgin Mary with Lamb"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Painted finalized drafts of stained glass windows with Christian biblical imagery.
Drawer 216, FlatFile 13
"Stations of the Cross"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Pencil tracings of paper on board.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 18
St. Mary of the Angels 4510 Finley Ave. (Hollywood, Calif.)
1933
Scope and Contents note
Painted textual sign and graphite sketch of altar.
Drawer 216, FlatFile 14
Stencil
undated
Scope and Contents note
A stencil round with initials.
Drawer 216, FlatFile 15
Stoneman School (San Marino, Calif.)
1930
Scope and Contents note
Watercolor proposed sketch of frieze in the kindergarten (with animals and young boy), on board.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 19
Studies of a Male Head
undated
Scope and Contents note
Four red chalk sketches of the busts and heads of various unidentifiable men.
Drawer 216, FlatFile 16
The Elements: "Four Lunettes"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Four watercolor sketches of lunettes depicting the four seasons.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 26
Various Works: "Brea", "Cahuenga", "De Anza", "Viscaino", "Micheltorena", "Citrus", and "Smith".
1861, 1847,1774,1602, 1844, 1841, 1826
Scope and Contents note
Various hand painted and drawn preliminary mural sketches on board.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 20
Torchees Design (Glendale, Calif.)
undated
Scope and Contents note
Sketch of interior furniture and lamp.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 24
Viking Ship
undated
Scope and Contents note
Pencil sketch of viking ship design on tracing paper.
Drawer 215, FlatFile 23
Virgil Junior High School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1932
Scope and Contents note
Ceiling plans of school's exercise room.
Drawer 216, FlatFile 17
Weathervane (Pasadena, Calif.)
undated
Scope and Contents note
Outlined sketch of man fighting a bull. Margaret Barber