A painter, printmaker, watercolorist, and lithographer, Lucille Hobbie was also a teacher, administrator, and winner of the Arts Council’s Outstanding Professional in the Arts Award (2002). Hobbie was known to have said, "I hope someday I'll become the painter I'd like to be.”

Born in Boonton in 1915, she knew from the first she wanted to be an artist. As she explained, “I saw so much and wanted so badly for everyone else to see it.” After her mother's death, she moved to New York, where her work was soon recognized. The self-taught artist had many one-woman shows at the prestigious Morton and 8th Street galleries. Early supporters included the New York Times art editor; before long she was exhibiting throughout the East Coast. With her painter husband Albert Heimrod, she moved to Newark, where they ran the Newark Art Club, and then returned to Morris County, settling in Mendham. They worked for 10 years with the Newark Board of Educa-tion's Saturday Children's Art School; she was simultaneously a teacher and administrator for the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts.

Hobbie was both a painter and a printmaker. Her first love was watercolor, but she worked extensively in lithography and also used casein, acrylic, pen and ink, and pencil. History was a strong theme in her work, which depicts farmsteads, fishing villages, and other elements of a vanishing American landscape. She is particularly well known for "Historic Morris County," a series of lithographs including the Wick House in Jockey Hollow, Hilltop Church in Mendham, and Acorn Hall.

Her award-winning work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums as well as corporate settings, including: the Montclair Art Museum, Colonial Williamsburg, the Newark Public Library Print Collection, the Seeing Eye, Nabisco, and others. She was a member of the National Society of Arts and Letters and the American Watercolor Society, and a lifetime member and former president of the New Jersey Watercolor Society. She had strong ties to the Morris County Heritage Commission and the Morris County Historical Society. Over the years, she donated many works and a portion of print sales to charitable causes, especially those dedicated to historic and natural conservation. She died in 2008.