Agnes Lyall

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]