Cushing, Lily Emmet, 1909-1969
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Cushing, Lily Emmet, 1909-1969
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Cushing, Lily Emmet, 1909-1969
Cushing, Lily Emmet
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Cushing, Lily Emmet
CUSHING, LILY.
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Clark, Lily Cushing, 1909-1969
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Clark, Lily Cushing, 1909-1969
Boyd, Lily Cushing, 1909-1969
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Boyd, Lily Cushing, 1909-1969
Emmet, Lily Cushing, 1909-1969
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Lily Emmet Cushing (1909-1969) painter from New York, N.Y.
Born in Newport, R.I. Cushing's father was Howard Gardiner Cushing.
Lily Cushing (1909-1969) of New York City was primarily known as a painter of landscapes and still lifes of flowers.
Lily Cushing was born on January 13, 1909 in New York City, the third child of Ethel Cochrane and artist Howard Gardiner Cushing. She studied painting in the studio of Alexandre Jacovleff in Paris from 1926-1927, and with Walt Kuhn in New York City in 1929. Cushing's first solo exhibition was at the Arden Gallery in New York in 1930.
In 1929, Cushing married George Crawford Clark Jr. in Newport, Rhode Island. Following her divorce from Clark, she married William Temple Emmet, Jr. in 1932. They had two daughters, Alexandra and Lily. Cushing's second marriage also ended in divorce. In 1953, she married naval officer Alston M. Boyd in New York.
Cushing's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and in the private collections of Paul Mellon, John Hay Whitney, and Joseph P. Kennedy, among others.
Lily Cushing died on September 21, 1969, in Fishers Island, New York.
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