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| Lucile Joullin was born in Geneseo, Illinois on August 7, 1876, studying art at sixteen years of age. From 1901-1904 she studied at the Chicago Art Institute, Illinois, and later at the California School of Design, San Francisco. Though well-known and respected for her paintings of Indians, Joullin was early recognized for "The Algerian Slave," exhibited in 1908 at the Paris Salon.
In 1897, she married artist Jules Mersfelder, in Spokane, Washington. In a bad year for her1906 Joullin divorced her husband and lost her possessions in the San Francisco earthquake and fire. A year later, she married San Francisco artist Amedee Joullin in New York, and traveled to Europe for two years. From 1909, until her husband's death in 1917, they lived in San Francisco. She continued to live in that city, marrying Edward H. Benjamin, a mining engineer in 1919. Joullin taught at Mills College, in Oakland, in 1918-1919.
Joullin painted portraits and figures of women and children, landscapes and Indians, whom she painted with increasing frequency, influenced by her second husband, who was known for his paintings of Native Americans. Often traveling in Indian country alone, she visited the Pueblos in Isleta, New Mexico, in 1916, who welcomed her in their homes, posed for her, and allowed her to view their ceremonies. She later often traveled and painted in New Mexico and Arizona, gaining a reputation both as an artist and authority on Indian culture.
Joullin's paintings appeared in publications like James's New Mexico: The Land of Delight Makers and on the cover of Sunset Magazine. Joullin, headquartered in San Francisco, also continued to paint Bay Area and Monterey Peninsula landscapes. Her work may be found in the collection of the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, California.
The artist had one-person exhibitions in 1915 at Rabjohn and Morcom Galleries, San Francisco, and in 1923 at the Kanst Galleries, Los Angeles. She also participated in shows in San Francisco that include the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco Art Association, Sketch Club, San Francisco Artists Society, Sequoia Club, Cap and Bells Club, Mark Hopkins Art Institute, Gump's Gallery, Courvoisier's, and Galerie des Beaux Arts.
Lucile Wilcox Joullin died June 5, 1924, in San Francisco.
References to Joullin's work appear in Who Was Who in American Art; Benezit; Petteys; Dawdy 1 and 2; Samuels &. Samuels, Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia; Hughes; Schwartz, Northern California Art; California Art Res 4 (see A Joullin); Mills College Quarterly, Apr 1918; Chicago Tribune, Aug 1897; San Francisco Chronicle, Mar 20, 1906, Nov 4, 1917, Feb 10, 1918, Mar 10, 1918, May 26 1918, Jul 14, 1918, 0ct 30, 1921, Nov 26, 1922, Jun 6, 1924; San Francisco Call, Jul 8, 1906, Jun 5, 1907; San Francisco Examiner, Oct 31, 1915; Oct 21, 1919, Jun 6, 1924; Los Angeles Times, Apr 24, 1923; US Census 1880, Henry County, Illinois, ED 110, pg 1; C J Pyle (Library, Mills College), 1977; R M Weaver (Special Collection, Mills College), 1991.
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Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki Kovinick, An Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
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| Born in Genesco, IL on Sept. 6, 1876, "Lou" Wilcox was the pupil of John Vanderpoel at the AIC before settling in San Francisco in 1894. She had further study at the Mark Hopkins Institute under Arthur Mathews and Amédée Joullin. She was married briefly at the turn of the century to artist Jules Mersfelder; however, the marriage failed, whereupon she wed Amédée Joullin in 1907.
During 1907 she worked as a designer for Globe Wallpaper in Seattle before leaving on an extended honeymoon in Paris. After returning to San Francisco in 1909, she established a home and studio. She taught at Mills College in Oakland in 1917-18 and, about this time, did a series of paintings of Golden Gate Park.
After the death of her second husband in 1917, she wed Edward Benjamin (brother of artist Ruth Benjamin) and again spent long periods in New Mexico. Except for the time in New Mexico and Paris, she lived in San Francisco until her demise on June 5, 1924.
Lucile Joullin is best known for her landscapes of northern California and depictions of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico.
Exh: SFAA; SF Artists Society, 1905; Mark Hopkins Inst., 1906; Sketch Club (SF), 1906; Paris Salon, 1908; Rabjohn & Morcom (SF), 1915 (solo); Kanst Gallery (LA), 1923.
Collection: Bohemian Club; Southwest Museum (LA). | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
California Art Research, 20 volumes; Artists of the American West (Samuels); Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers (Fielding, Mantle); Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs (Bénézit, E); American Art Annual 1903-24; Women Artists of the American West; Death record; Art News, 6-14-1924 and SF Chronicle, 6-6-1924 (obits). | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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Taos Pre 1940
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