Lallie Lloyd lived most of her life on the Main Line - initially in Devon and later in Haverford - except for 14 years spent in Washington after World War II. Named after her mother, Eleanor Biddle, she doubtless learned her most practical lessons about public service from the example of her father, John Hampton Barnes. He was a prominent Philadelphia lawyer who led reform movements in the Republican Party against the Vare machine after World War I. In 1919, he worked on revisions of the City Charter and also helped create Benjamin Franklin Parkway and Logan Square's Swann Fountain project with Stirling Calder as its sculptor.
In 1927, Lallie married Princeton graduate Gates Lloyd of Allgates in Haverford. The groom was starting his career as an investment banker in his father's footsteps. In 1930, country-house architects Willing, Sims & Talbutt designed Linden on Haverford's Darby Road for the young couple. They lived there a half-century until that imposing house and its extensive grounds became The Quadrangle lifecare community.
Lallie Lloyd started collecting art in the late 1930s. Lloyd helped start Washington Gallery of Modern Art and was a founder and longtime chair of the advisory board of ICA at the University of Pennsylvania, during which period that nonprofit showcase (which opened in 1964) became nationally recognized. She was regional vice chairman of Partnership in the Arts, working to secure funds for National Endowment for the Arts. Besides serving as trustee for several museums and institutions here and in Manhattan, she was a member of the United States delegation to the UNESCO general conference in Paris. In this capacity she organized the American Committee for the Preservation of the Nubian Monuments and the American Committee to Preserve Abu Simbel in Egypt - efforts that rescued Egyptian art treasures from the advancing waters of the Nile. Her dedication to the art world culminated in 1991 when the Institute for Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania dedicated their new eshibition building: Eleanor Biddle Lloyd Gallery.
[Philly.com, July 14, 1991. By Victoria Donohoe, Inquirer Art Critic]
In 1927, Lallie married Princeton graduate Gates Lloyd of Allgates in Haverford. The groom was starting his career as an investment banker in his father's footsteps. In 1930, country-house architects Willing, Sims & Talbutt designed Linden on Haverford's Darby Road for the young couple. They lived there a half-century until that imposing house and its extensive grounds became The Quadrangle lifecare community.
Lallie Lloyd started collecting art in the late 1930s. Lloyd helped start Washington Gallery of Modern Art and was a founder and longtime chair of the advisory board of ICA at the University of Pennsylvania, during which period that nonprofit showcase (which opened in 1964) became nationally recognized. She was regional vice chairman of Partnership in the Arts, working to secure funds for National Endowment for the Arts. Besides serving as trustee for several museums and institutions here and in Manhattan, she was a member of the United States delegation to the UNESCO general conference in Paris. In this capacity she organized the American Committee for the Preservation of the Nubian Monuments and the American Committee to Preserve Abu Simbel in Egypt - efforts that rescued Egyptian art treasures from the advancing waters of the Nile. Her dedication to the art world culminated in 1991 when the Institute for Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania dedicated their new eshibition building: Eleanor Biddle Lloyd Gallery.
[Philly.com, July 14, 1991. By Victoria Donohoe, Inquirer Art Critic]
Lallie Lloyd lived most of her life on the Main Line - initially in Devon and later in Haverford - except for 14 years spent in Washington after World War II. Named after her mother, Eleanor Biddle, she doubtless learned her most practical lessons about public service from the example of her father, John Hampton Barnes. He was a prominent Philadelphia lawyer who led reform movements in the Republican Party against the Vare machine after World War I. In 1919, he worked on revisions of the City Charter and also helped create Benjamin Franklin Parkway and Logan Square's Swann Fountain project with Stirling Calder as its sculptor.
In 1927, Lallie married Princeton graduate Gates Lloyd of Allgates in Haverford. The groom was starting his career as an investment banker in his father's footsteps. In 1930, country-house architects Willing, Sims & Talbutt designed Linden on Haverford's Darby Road for the young couple. They lived there a half-century until that imposing house and its extensive grounds became The Quadrangle lifecare community.
Lallie Lloyd started collecting art in the late 1930s. Lloyd helped start Washington Gallery of Modern Art and was a founder and longtime chair of the advisory board of ICA at the University of Pennsylvania, during which period that nonprofit showcase (which opened in 1964) became nationally recognized. She was regional vice chairman of Partnership in the Arts, working to secure funds for National Endowment for the Arts. Besides serving as trustee for several museums and institutions here and in Manhattan, she was a member of the United States delegation to the UNESCO general conference in Paris. In this capacity she organized the American Committee for the Preservation of the Nubian Monuments and the American Committee to Preserve Abu Simbel in Egypt - efforts that rescued Egyptian art treasures from the advancing waters of the Nile. Her dedication to the art world culminated in 1991 when the Institute for Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania dedicated their new eshibition building: Eleanor Biddle Lloyd Gallery.
[Philly.com, July 14, 1991. By Victoria Donohoe, Inquirer Art Critic]
In 1927, Lallie married Princeton graduate Gates Lloyd of Allgates in Haverford. The groom was starting his career as an investment banker in his father's footsteps. In 1930, country-house architects Willing, Sims & Talbutt designed Linden on Haverford's Darby Road for the young couple. They lived there a half-century until that imposing house and its extensive grounds became The Quadrangle lifecare community.
Lallie Lloyd started collecting art in the late 1930s. Lloyd helped start Washington Gallery of Modern Art and was a founder and longtime chair of the advisory board of ICA at the University of Pennsylvania, during which period that nonprofit showcase (which opened in 1964) became nationally recognized. She was regional vice chairman of Partnership in the Arts, working to secure funds for National Endowment for the Arts. Besides serving as trustee for several museums and institutions here and in Manhattan, she was a member of the United States delegation to the UNESCO general conference in Paris. In this capacity she organized the American Committee for the Preservation of the Nubian Monuments and the American Committee to Preserve Abu Simbel in Egypt - efforts that rescued Egyptian art treasures from the advancing waters of the Nile. Her dedication to the art world culminated in 1991 when the Institute for Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania dedicated their new eshibition building: Eleanor Biddle Lloyd Gallery.
[Philly.com, July 14, 1991. By Victoria Donohoe, Inquirer Art Critic]
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