Lucy L'Engle was born in New York City and attended the Art Students League in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she studied with Charles Webster Hawthorne in Provincetown. Subsequently, she studied in Paris with Albert Gleizes. She moved to Provincetown permanently three years later, continuing a life-long relationship with the Cape End. L’Engle worked extensively in cubism early in her career, but moved masterfully through a range of schools and styles. She explored abstract, figurative, and realist art without boundaries, creating works of breathtaking achievement.