Lucille Wallenrod, also known as Lucille Wallenrod-Dreyblatt, (October 4, 1918 – October 5, 1998)Birth date and death date from the U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index; this birth date is consistent with the 1920 Federal Census, in which she appears as a one-year-old child; via Ancestry was an American artist. She was active in Long Island, New York from 1939 until the 1990s.

Early life and education

Lucille Wallenrod was born in

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, and grew up in

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, the daughter of Philip Wallenrod and Anna Kaplan Wallenrod. Her parents were immigrants from Russia. Wallenrod was born with

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. She studied at the W.P.A. Art Class (1939), Nassau Art League (1940), the

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(1942), and at the

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(1943). She had studied with painter Sol Wilson at Art Students League of New York.

Career

Because Wallenrod had cerebral palsy, she painted with a special arm brace of her own design. She painted dramatic expressionist seascapes with broad strokes and deep, vivid colors, as well as still lifes and portraits. Wallenrod had her first solo exhibition at the Roko Gallery (1946) and then belonged for many years to the Charles Barzansky Gallery, both in New York City. She also participated in numerous group exhibitions in the late forties until the early nineteen sixties. She won a number of competitions, most notably the first prize in the National Art Contest sponsored by President Eisenhower's Committee on the Handicapped in 1956, for her "Ships at Bay". Judges for this competition were

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, Frank J. Reilly, and

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. The prize was $1000, and her painting was exhibited with other finalists across the United States. Her work was often reviewed in New York and Long Island newspapers.

Personal life

Wallenrod married Gerald Dreyblatt in 1947. They had a son, composer

Arnold Dreyblatt Arnold Dreyblatt (born 1953) is an American composer, performance artist and visual artist. Biography Arnold Dreyblatt was born in 1953 in New York City. His mother, Lucille Wallenrod (1918–1998), was a painter. He started his studies at ...

. Due to a long terminal illness, Lucille Wallenrod's output waned in her later years, yet her interest and sensitivity for the arts never faltered. She died in

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in 1998, the day after her 80th birthday. Her husband, Gerald Dreyblatt, died in Florida in 2008.

Gallery

Image:PreparingforSail.jpg, "Preparing for Sea", by Lucille Wallenrod, Oil Image:HillsideAvenue.jpg, "Hillside Avenue", by Lucille Wallenrod, Oil Image:At the Shore.jpg, "At the Shore", by Lucille Wallenrod, Oil Image:RagingSea.jpg, "Raging Sea", by Lucille Wallenrod, Oil Image:Portrait of An Old Man.jpg, "Portrait of An Old Man", by Lucille Wallenrod, Oil Image:StormySea.jpg, "Stormy Sea', by Lucille Wallenrod, Oil Image:MontaukLight.jpg, "Montauk Light", by Lucille Wallenrod, Oil Image:The Red Barn.jpg, "The Red Barn", by Lucille Wallenrod, Oil Image:TurbulentWaters.jpg, "Turbulent Waters", by Lucille Wallenrod, Oil Image:ShipsAtBay.jpg, "Ships At Bay", by Lucille Wallenrod, Oil Image:Gayhead.jpg, "Gay Head", by Lucille Wallenrod, Oil Image:Bread and Pitcher.jpg, "Bread and Pitcher", by Lucille Wallenrod, Pastel Image:Roko1.jpg, Exhibition by Lucille Wallenrod, Roko Gallery, New York, 1946 Image:Barzansky1.jpg, Exhibition by Lucille Wallenrod, Barzansky Gallery, New York, 1957 Image:Barzansky2.jpg, Exhibition by Lucille Wallenrod, Barzansky Gallery, New York, 1960 Image:Wallenrod.jpg, Lucille Wallenrod at Exhibition, Barzansky Gallery, New York, 1960

References

External links

Lucille Dreyblatt profile
at ArtFact.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Wallenrod, Lucille 1918 births 1998 deaths 20th-century American painters Art Students League of New York alumni American modern painters 20th-century American women painters People from Freeport, New York