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]

Education

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Lyall graduated with a BA in Art from Smith College[11] 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

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  1. ^ "Agnes Lyall Obituary". Legacy.com.
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  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. ^ "Agnes Lyall Obituary (2013) - Lake Hill, NY - Butler Eagle". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2024-03-15.