Education
She attended the Art Institute of Chicago 1908-1912.
She attended the Art Institute of Chicago 1908-1912.
They traveled together to Corsica, Cuba, China, Japan, Tahiti and eventually settled in Greenwich Village, New York City. Swan and Blum were both prolific artists who worked while they traveled. Lucile divorced Jerome Blum in 1924.
Lucile moved to Peking, China in 1929.
In 1937, as the assistant of Doctor Franz Weidenreich, she worked on reconstructing the skull of the Peking Manitoba, a Homo erectus hominid, on a paleontological dig in China. She fell in love with him but he held to his priestly vows of celibacy.
They kept up a long correspondence. Swan died in New York ten years after the death of de Chardin.