Background
Corcos, Lucille was born on September 21, 1908 in New York City. Daughter of Joseph and Amelia (Abrams) Corcos.
Corcos, Lucille was born on September 21, 1908 in New York City. Daughter of Joseph and Amelia (Abrams) Corcos.
Student Art Students League New New York
Commissioned paintings include fullpage color eproductions national magazines including Life, Holiday, Vogue, Fortune, et cetera, United States Gypsum Company. Series four painting Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company, 1952. Murals include Kaleidoscope, Waldorf-Astoria, 1945, 12 decorative murals in Lounge-Cafe, Waldorf-Astoria, 1940.
Mural North. Shore Hospital, Manhasset, Long Island, 1953.
One man shows: Schneider Gabriel Galleries, 1948, New York and Grand Central Moderns, 1948, 1954. Rockland Foundation, West Nyack, New New York
State Department American Embassy Show, Paris, 1954 paintings exhibited in music shows throughout United States, South America, Great Britain. Metropolitan, Whitney Museum, Audubon Artists, representative permanent collections: Whitney Museum American Art, Museum TelAviv, Israel, Shell Oil Corporation, Naturalizer Shoe Company, American Brewers Association, Columbia Broadcasting System, R.H. Macy & Company and in many private collections.
Author and illustr.: Joel Gets a Haircut, 1952.
Joel Spends His Money, 1954. Joel Gets a Dog, 1958. From Ungskah to Oyaylee: A Counting Book for All Little Indians, 1965.
The City Book, 1972.
Illustrator: A Treasury of Gilbert and Sullivan, 1941. A Treasury of Laughter, 1946. Chichikov’s Journeys, 1945.
Little Lame Prince, 1946.
Follow the Sunset, 1952. Women Today, 1953; The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1958.
Songs of the Gilded Age, 1960. Grimm’s Fairy Tales, 4 volumes
(for Limited. Editions Club), 1962.
Designer, illustrator multimedia library instruction programs Libraries are for Children, 1967, Seeking and Finding, 1969.
Member Artists Equity Association (director) New York chapter 1964-1966).
Married Edgar Levy, May 7, 1928. Children: David Corcos, Joel Corcos.