WILLIAM L'ENGLE
"JAZZ DANCERS"
OIL ON CANVAS BOARD, SIGNED
AMERICAN, DATED 1945
20 X 16 INCHES
William Johnson L’Engle Jr. William Johnson L’Engle Jr. was born in Jacksonville, Florida on April 22, 1884. He studied at Yale University and Académie Julien in Paris and was a pupil of Richard Miller, Jean Paul Laurens, Raphael Collin and Louis Biloul. L’Engle was a painter, specializing in landscapes, figures, and genre scenes, working in oil, watercolor, and acrylic. L’Engle was a member of the Society of Independent Artists (exhibited 1918, 1921-23, 1925), the Provincetown Art Association, and the St. Augustine Art Club. In addition, he has exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1934 and 1936 as well as the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1928 and 1939. He lived in New Orleans around 1918 and New York City in 1929. L’Engle died in Truro, Massachusetts in 1957. L’Engle’s paintings are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Art 1564-1975 Vol. II, Mantle Fieldings Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, The Biographical Encyclopedia of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers of the U.S., The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1914 – 1968, and www.ArtNet.com. |