biography of Lyle DURGIN (1850-?)

Birth place: Boston, MA

Addresses: Boston, MA

Profession: Painter

Studied: Académie Julian, Paris with Robert-Fleury, Bonnat, and Bouguereau, 1879-84; in Italy, 1890

Exhibited: Paris Salon 1884, 1886; Boston AC, 1887-1900

Member: Copley Soc., 1894

Work: murals, Detroit (MI) church

Comments: Painted figures and portraits in a Boston studio, which she shared with her sister Harriet (see entry).

Sources: WW04; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 340; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists.