Finding Aid for the Joyce Earley Lyndon drawings, circa 1950-circa 1995 0000154

Finding aid prepared by Chris Marino
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


Title: Joyce Earley Lyndon drawings
Identifier/Call Number: 0000154
Contributing Institution: Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 4.0 Linear feet (2 boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1950-circa 1995
creator: Lyndon, Joyce Earley, 1914-2000

Access

Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.

Custodial History note

Gift of Donlyn and Maynard Hale Lyndon, 2001.

Preferred Citation note

Joyce Earley Lyndon drawings, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Biographical/Historical note

Joyce Earley Lyndon, landscape architect and planner was born in 1914. She was a member of the Royal Town Planning institute and a Fellow of the Landscape Institute in the United Kingdom. Beginning in 1957, Lyndon worked as a member of the Environmental Planning Commission of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. She also worked for twenty years in the British planning department and ten years as a consultant in Southern California. Joyce Lyndon was married to the architect Maynard Lyndon. She died at the age of 86, in 2000.

Scope and Content note

The Joyce Earley Lyndon drawings span 4 linear feet and date from circa 1950 to circa 1995. The collection is composed of landscape sketches in pencil and charcoal as well as and watercolor landscapes.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Lyndon, Joyce Earley, 1914-2000
Sketches
Watercolor paintings