Lucy L'Engle

Lucy L'Engle (1889–1978) was an American painter who had a personal abstract style that ranged from Cubist to representational to purely abstract. Critics appreciated the discipline she showed in constructing a sealed base on which these stylistic phases evolved. As one of them, Helen Appleton Read of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, said in 1932, she was "at heart a painter subsequent to a painter's sensuous enjoyment of the medium itself." L'Engle herself at one epoch described her art as "a show of form and color" and at complementary said, "My pictures represent my feelings approximately experiences. They are experiments in protester art." Over the course of a long career she used studios in both Manhattan and Provincetown and exhibited in both poster galleries and the annual shows held by two membership organizations, the New York Society of Women Artists and the Provincetown Art Association.