Lucile Swan

Lucile Swan (born the May 10th 1890 with Sioux City, Iowa - died the May 2nd 1965 with New York) was an artist, painter and American sculptrice of the 20th century.

Biography

Lucile Swan received its first education with the episcopal boarding school. In 1903 it settled with Chicago, and in 1908 started to study with the Art Institute off Chicago. In 1912, it married the artist Jerome Blum.

Of 1916 with 1923, it worked and travelled in Corsica, with the Japan, in China, with Tahiti and in France. In 1924, it divorced. Two years later, it closed its workshop of Chicago and moved with New York where it continued its work.

In 1929, Lucile Swan agreed an offer of the laboratory Cénozoïque with Beijing to work near the professor Franz Weidenreich. Little time after its arrival in China this year, it met the Father Teilhard of Chardin at the time of a dinner organized by Dr. Amadeus Grabau.

Well later, she will remember how this decisive meeting changed its life. A deep friendship was born between the artist and the philosopher, who frequently came to take the at it in Beijing. The hours passed in interminable conversations turning around the philosophy of Teilhard.

In 1937, whereas it was the assistant of the professor Weidenreich, Lucile Swan worked on the reconstitution of the skeleton of the Homme of Beijing, a Hominidé classified like Homo erectus .

During its stay in China, it also carved a bust of the father Teilhard of Chardin, to which a solid friendship bound it, until the disappearance of the philosopher in 1955. Its correspondence with the author of the human Phénomène was published by his/her niece, Mary Wood Gilbert.

Lucile Swan died in New York, the May 2nd 1965, at the 74 years age.

External bonds

In connection with the publication of the correspondence between Pierre Teilhard of Chardin and Lucile Swan, Georgetown University, April 11th, 2005

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