Lucinda Davies, later known professionally as Lu Duble, was brought to the United States at the age of three. She studied in New York at the Art Students League, the Cooper Union, and at the Academy school ***. Among her teachers were Alexander Archipenko, Jose de Creeft, and Hans Hofmann.
She received a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1937-38, and a Fellowship from the Institute of International Education which allowed her to travel to Mexico from 1942 to 1944. Her life-long interest in the cultures of the Haitian and Mayan peoples was reflected in her work. An example of which, Calling the Loa, Haiti, won the Anna Hyatt Huntington Prize in 1938 from the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. El Penitente and Los Damnifacados were among the sculptural products of her Mexican trip. A number of these Haitian and Mexican pieces were exhibited at the Academy over the years, beginning in 1938. Her Last Migration won the Speyer Prize at the Academy in 1952.
Duble taught sculpture at Bennett Junior College, Millbrook, New York; at the Brearley and the Dalton schools, New York; and at the Montclair (New Jersey) Museum of Art. Duble was also a tutor to Ray Eames.
She survived her first husband, Jesse Clyde Duble; her second marriage was to the landscape architect, Alfred Geiffert, Jr. She maintained a summer home and studio in Woodstock for some years.
