Lucile Swan
Lucile Swan (May 10, 1887 – May 2, 1965) was an American sculptor and artist.
Also recorded as Lucille P. Swan
Lucile Swan
- Died
- 1965
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- artist · sculptor
- Languages
- English
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Lucile Swan (May 10, 1887 – May 2, 1965) was an American sculptor and artist.
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Lucile Swan was artist and sculptor; nationality: United States. Lucile Swan was born in 1890. Lucile Swan died in 1965. The language is English.
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Early life
Early life
Lucile Swan was born in Sioux City, Iowa. She attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1908 to 1912. In December 1912 she married painter Jerome Blum in Paris, France.
Career
Career
They traveled together to Corsica, Cuba, China, Japan, Tahiti and eventually settled in Greenwich Village, New York City. Swan and Blum were both prolific artists who worked while they traveled. Lucile divorced Jerome Blum in 1924. Lucile moved to Peking, China in 1929. In 1937, as the assistant of Dr. Franz Weidenreich, she worked on reconstructing the skull of the Peking Man, a Homo erectus hominid, on a paleontological dig in China. She also sculpted a bust of Jesuit priest Teilhard de Chardin, who was the geologist on the dig. She fell in love with him but he held to his priestly vows of celibacy. They kept up a long correspondence.
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Death
Swan died in New York City ten years after the death of de Chardin.
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- 1.Lucile Swan - Biography. www.askart.com.
- 2.Ness, Zenobia B. Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years. Wallace-Homestead Company. 31. 1939.
- 3.Aczel, Amir. The Jesuit and the skull: Teilhard de Chardin, evolution, and the search for Peking Man. Riverhead Books. 151. 2007. 9781594489563.
- 4.Sack, Susan Kassman. America's Teilhard: Christ and Hope in the 1960s. Catholic University Press. 2019.
- 5.McCarthy, Joseph M. The Letters of Teilhard de Chardin and Lucile Swan ed. by Thomas M. King, S.J., and Mary Wood Gilbert. The Catholic Historical Review. 81. 1. 95–96. 1995. 1534-0708.
- 6.Georgetown University Press. The letters of Teilhard de Chardin and Lucile Swan. 1993. 0878405224.
- 7.Swan, Lucile, -1965 - Social Networks and Archival Context. snaccooperative.org.
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