Lucy L'Engle, Painting the Hull (reverse Still Life by William L'Engle), Early 20th c., Oil on panel, 30 x 24 in

William & Lucy L'Engle, early American Modernists and disciples of Cubism, were part of the New York City, Paris, Provincetown art movements and a generation of artists working abroad in the years immediately following the public debut of Cubism in Paris in 1908. William Johnson L'Engle, (1884-1957) arrived in Paris in 1909 at the age of 25 with a degree in Naval Architecture from Yale and classes at the Art Students League in New York. Among his classmates at the League in 1907-08 were Georgia O'Keefe and Blanche Lazzell. In Paris, William first studied at Acadamie Julian and then at the Ecole de Beaux Arts with Jean-Paul Laurens. Lucy Brown L'Engle (1889-1978) studied with Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown in 1909 and then for a year in 1911-12 at the Art Students League before going to Paris at the age of 23 to study at the Acadamie Julian with Albert Gleizes in 1913. The couple met soon after Lucy arrived in Paris and married in 1914. They contributed to the introduction of early Modernism to the Provincetown art colony and its history. Throughout their entire lives, they both painted constantly and produced a large volume of artwork in the summer season in Truro, with winters in New York City, St. Augustine, Florida, Cuba, and beyond, that are in major museums and collections far and wide. (Daniel L'Engle)

William L'Engle, Fisherman, 1925, Oil on panel, 16 x 20 in