Agnes Lyall

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Agnes Earl Lyall (February 25, 1908 - September 14, 2013 [1] ) was an American artist. [2] She helped found the American Abstract Artists in 1936. [3] Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, [2] the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [4] the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [5] the Brooklyn Museum, [6] the Yale University Art Gallery, [7] the Carnegie Museum of Art, [8] the National Gallery of Art [9] and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. [10] She was also exhibited at the Riverside Museum.

During World War II, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) selected her to receive training in Japanese at Columbia University. [11] She became an American Council of Learned Societies Grantee/Fellow in the Intensive Language Program in 1942, decoding Japanese messages intercepted from enemy ship communications. [11]

Lyall died at her home in Lake Hill, New York at the age of 105. [1]

Education

Lyall graduated with a BA in Art from Smith College [12] in 1930, and MA in Art from Columbia University. She spent some time in Europe traveling and studying art and returned to New York City.

References

  1. 1 2 "Agnes Lyall Obituary". Legacy.com .
  2. 1 2 "Agnes Lyall". www.whitney.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  3. ↑ "Founding Members". American Abstract Artists. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  4. ↑ "Agnes Earl Lyall | Untitled | the Met". Archived from the original on 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  5. ↑ "Agnes E. Lyall". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  6. ↑ "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  7. ↑ "Squibb Gallery Exhibition of the American Abstract | Yale University Art Gallery". artgallery.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  8. ↑ "CMOA Collection". collection.cmoa.org. Archived from the original on 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  9. ↑ "Artist Info". www.nga.gov. Archived from the original on 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  10. ↑ "Agnes Lyall - MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 2019-06-01. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  11. 1 2 "Agnes Lyall Obituary - Lake Hill, NY". Daily Freeman. 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2025-03-21.
  12. ↑ "Agnes Lyall Obituary (2013) - Lake Hill, NY - Butler Eagle". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
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