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Florence Wyle

Florence Wyle (1881 - 1968) was active/lived in Ontario, Illinois / Canada.  Florence Wyle is known for Sculptor-figure and animal, torso.

Though Florence Wyle became a well-known Canadian sculptor of memorials and smaller figures, she was an American, born in 1881 in Trenton, Illinois.  Taking pre-medical studies from 1900 to 1903 at the University of Illinois, in Urbana, she decided in the latter year to study art at the Art Institute of Chicago.  It was a fateful decision both in terms of her professional and personal life, for there she met Frances Loring (1887-1968), in 1905, also a future sculptor and her lifelong companion.

Wyle taught modeling in clay at the Art Institute from 1906 to 1909, receiving a commission from the Institute in 1907. Briefly in New York City, she moved to Toronto to join Loring there in 1913. They would live in Toronto, making their studio from a converted church, until their deaths in 1968.

Canada was little interested in sculpture at the time, and the two women, much a part of Canadian society and art activities, were ardent advocates of the medium as sculptors, pa   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4853 characters.]  Artist bio

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