Lucile Swan

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Lucile Swan (May 10, 1890 – May 2, 1965) was an American sculptor and artist. In 1937, as the assistant of Dr. Franz Weidenreich, she worked on reconstructing the skull of the Peking Man, a Homo erectus hominid, on a paleontological dig in China. She also sculpted a bust of Teilhard de Chardin, who was the geologist on the dig. She fell in love with him but he held to his Jesuit vows of celibacy. They kept up a long correspondence. She died in New York ten years after his death.