Gwen Lux

Gwen Lux Creighton, professionally Gwen Lux, (1908–1986) was an American sculptor known for her abstraction and frequently constructed from polyester resin concrete and metals. She was among America's pioneer women sculptors.

Biography Gwen Wickerts was born on November 17, 1908, in Chicago, Illinois.

She began her art studies in Detroit at age 14, taking classes with potter, Mary Chase Perry Stratton at Pewabic Pottery. She later studied at Wicker School of Fine Art and Art League of Detroit between 1923 and 1926. In 1933, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Art. In 1959, she married Thomas Hawk Creighton, a longtime editor of Progressive Architecture magazine. In 1986, Lux married her longtime friend and companion Jerome R. Wallace, a well-known artist who created batiks using natural dyes found in the local environment on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.

Notable commissions Her commissions included sculptures for Radio City Music Hall in New York City, the McGraw-Hill Building in Chicago, the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit, and the centerpiece for the first-class dining room of the SS United States. The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (Michigan State University, East Lansing) and the Mariners' Museum (Newport News, Virginia) are among the public collections holding her work.

Her sculpture entitled “Eve” was commissioned by Radio City Music Hall and purchased by the Rockefeller Center, New York in 1932, but was first met with controversial reviews. The façade comes from the art-deco 1929 McGraw-Hill Building designed by the architectural firm of Thielbard & Fugard.