Len Lye - Personal Life

Personal Life

Lye was married twice. His first wife was Jane (Florence Winifred) Thompson with whom he had two children:

  • Bix Lye, also a sculptor, who lives and works in Williamsburg, New York
  • Yancy Ning Lou Lye (born 20 May 1940, Chiswick, London)

In Reno in May 1948, Lye married his second wife, Annette "Ann" Zeiss (born 1910, Minnesota) on the same day he obtained a divorce from Jane. Ann was formerly married to Tommy Hindle, a British journalist.

He died in Warwick, New York.

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