Lucile Leighton (American)
Haunting Chicago Street scene
Gouache on paper
Signed
Size: 23cm x 30cm
 
b. Chicago, 1911 and d. La Jolla, CA, 1983
 
Lucile Leighton was born in Chicago, where she enjoyed a
long career as an artist and teacher. She studied at the
School of the Art Institute (SAIC) as well as the Evanston Academy
of Fine Arts, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and the Illinois Institute
of Technology, with Misch Kohn. She and her husband, documentary 
filmmaker Robert Leighton, traveled extensively, and Leighton was said 
to be especially fond of the Far East. Leighton was a founding member
of Exhibit A Gallery, an artistic cooperative in Chicago, and her worksóin oil,
acrylic, drawing, watercolor, and printmaking were exhibited
widely in Chicago and across the United States.