Agnes Lyall
American artist (1908–2013)
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Agnes Earl Lyall (February 25, 1908 - September 14, 2013[1]) was an American artist.[2] She helped found the American Abstract Artists in 1936.[3] Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art,[2] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[4] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[5] the Brooklyn Museum,[6] the Yale University Art Gallery,[7] the Carnegie Museum of Art,[8] the National Gallery of Art[9] and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.[10] She was also exhibited at the Riverside Museum.
During World War II, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) selected her to receive training in Japanese at Columbia University.[11] She became an American Council of Learned Societies Grantee/Fellow in the Intensive Language Program in 1942, decoding Japanese messages intercepted from enemy ship communications.[11]
Lyall died at her home in Lake Hill, New York at the age of 105.[1]
Education
Lyall graduated with a BA in Art from Smith College[12] in 1930, and MA in Art from Columbia University. She spent some time in Europe traveling and studying art and returned to New York City.
