Lucile Lloyd

Lucile Lloyd (August 28 1894 - February 25 1941) was an American muralist.

Lloyd was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She worked in her father's studio and apprenticed in his stained-glass and textile design shop. She attended school at the Woman's Art School at Cooper Union in New York City and won two scholarships to the Art Students League of New York. She was the only woman to work in the drafting room of architect Bertram G. Goodhue and painted her first mural decoration at the age of twenty.

Moved with husband and son to California in 1919. Opened a studio, taught classes and took the directorship of the Stickney Memorial School of Art in Pasadena. Worked as a muralist and decorator and also produced bookplates, cartoons, logos, water color, charcoal, architectural renderings and stained-glass designs. She worked with many well-known architectural firms.

Three Works Progress Administration/Federal Arts Project murals by Lloyd have, since 1992, been displayed by the California State Senate. The murals were moved after the original site was damaged in the 1971 Los Angeles Earthquake. They are now in the Senate Committee Room in Sacramento, California.

The murals, titled "California's Name", were dedicated on October 16, 1937 at the Los Angeles State Building at 217 West First Street on the Civic Center, hung in an Assembly room. The middle was 16'x13' and side panels were 6.5'x13'

Lloyd was one of six artists who submitted drawings for the murals at Griffith Observatory. She was a member of the California Art Club, Women Painters of the West, American Bookplate Society and the California State Historical Association.

Married second husband Niel McNulty in 1936, who died in 1939. Lucile Lloyd committed suicide in February, 1941.

Commissions

1923

*'Episodes of Beowulf' Hanson house Flintridge

1927

*Eight murals private homes Los Angeles

1928

*'Madonna of the covered Wagon' South Pasadena Junior High

1929

*Ceilings; First Methodist Episcopal Church Santa Ana
*Children's rooms Ives and Warren Mortuary Pasadena
*Eight murals private residences, San Marino Beverley Hills

1930

*Kindergarten Frieze - Stoneman Elementary School, San Marino
*Ceilings and mural - First Baptist Church Chapel, Pasadena
*Administration Building murals, South Pasadena Schools
*South Pasadena Public Library
*Auditorium ceiling, Sierra Madre Grade School
*Newport Harbor Union High School

1931

*Ceilings, Hollywood Citizen News building Hollywood
*Auditorium El Centro Elementary School South Pasadena
*Facade, Averill-Morgan Company, Hollywood
*Auditorium, Long Beach Polytechnic
*Interiors, Mannings Restaurant, Long Beach
*Study Hall ceiling Excelsior Union high School
*Ceilings and porch, 87th Street School, Los AngelesCeiling, Pacific Colony State Hospital at Spadra
*Murals, suites; Dr. I. Eugene Gould, Pasadena

1932

*Three wall panels, Hollywood National Bank
*Ceiling and Murals, Hotel Miramar
*Eagle Rock High School
*St. Mary's of the angeles Church Hollywood
*Virgil Junior High
*East Whittier School Mural 'Peter Pan'
*Gymnasium ceiling, Foshay Junior High School LA

1933

*Library ceiling, Hollywood High School
*Borders on Murals, LA Public Library Rotunda
*La Chappelle Residence, Beverley Hills
*Interiors, Manning's Restaurant, LA

1934

*Third Floor remodel, Broadway Department Store, LA
*Entrance, Jeweler's Exchange Building

1936-37

*Three murals, 'California's Name" Assembly Room, State Building LA
*Windows, mausoleum at Inglewood Cemetery

References

* "California's Name" - Three WPA sponsored Murals by Lucile Lloyd - published by California State Senate Rules Committee - January, 1992