Lucile Swan
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Lucile Swan (May 10, 1887 – May 2, 1965) was an American sculptor and artist.[1]
Early life[edit]
Lucile Swan was born in Sioux City, Iowa.[2] She attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1908 to 1912. In December 1912 she married painter Jerome Blum in Paris, France.[3]
Career[edit]
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.[3]
Lucile moved to Peking, China in 1929.[4] 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.[5] They kept up a long correspondence.[6]
Death[edit]
Swan died in New York City ten years after the death of de Chardin.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ "Lucile Swan - Biography". www.askart.com. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ^ Ness, Zenobia B.; Orwig, Louise (1939). Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years. Des Moines, Ia.: Wallace-Homestead Company. p. 31.
- ^ a b Aczel, Amir (2007). The Jesuit and the skull: Teilhard de Chardin, evolution, and the search for Peking Man. New York: Riverhead Books. p. 151. ISBN 9781594489563.
- ^ Sack, Susan Kassman (2019). America's Teilhard: Christ and Hope in the 1960s. Catholic University Press.
- ^ McCarthy, Joseph M. (1995). "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. doi:10.1353/cat.1995.0070. ISSN 1534-0708. S2CID 164019454.
- ^ King, Thomas M.; Gilbert, Mary Wood, eds. (1993). The letters of Teilhard de Chardin and Lucile Swan. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. ISBN 0878405224.
- ^ "Swan, Lucile, -1965 - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
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