Lucille Wilcox Joullin (1876–1924) was an American
painter known for her landscapes of
California and the Pueblo Indians of
New Mexico.[1]
Biography
Lucille (or Lucile) Wilcox Joullin was born in
Geneseo,
Illinois on September 6, 1876. She worked with
John Vanderpoel at the
Art Institute of Chicago. In 1894, she went to
San Francisco. Her first marriage was to artist Jules Mersfelder. Her second was to
Amédée Joullin (a painter himself) in 1907. The couple went on an extended honeymoon in
Paris, returning to San Francisco in 1909. After the death of her husband in 1917, she married Edward H. Benjamin, a
mining engineer,[2] and spent long periods in
New Mexico. She lived in San Francisco until her death on June 5, 1924.
^George Wharton James, New Mexico, the land of the delight makers. The Page company. 1920. p. 399.
^Mining and scientific press, Volume 119.Dewey Pub. Co., 1919
References
Phil Kovinick, Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, An encyclopedia of women artists of the American West. University of Texas Press. 1998.
George Wharton James, New Mexico, the land of the delight makers. The Page company. 1920.
Robert R. Preato, The genius of the fair muse: painting and sculpture : celebrating American women artists 1875 to 1945. Grand Central Art Galleries. 1987.