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Edward Laning

Edward Laning (1906 - 1981) was active/lived in New York, Missouri, Illinois.  Edward Laning is known for Genre, social-surreal view, mural paintings.

Edward Laning

Edward Laning, whose dream as a young man was to travel across the country in his car, solicit various communities to paint murals in the local courthouses, and execute mural decoration for the cost of the materials and room and board, became an outstanding mural painter with a special talent for figure painting.  Born in Petersburg, Illinois in 1906, he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1923-24) then at the University of Chicago (1925-27).  He received further art instruction for the following three years at the Art Students League in New York under Max Weber, John Sloan, Boardman Robinson, Thomas Hart Benton and Kenneth Hayes Miller.  Laning owes much of his style to the latter. Laning would have been exposed to the classical monumentality of Renaissance and Baroque mural painting in Rome, where he was in 1929 and 1931.   He won travel grants (Guggenheim and Fulbright), exhibited widely, and took part in WPA mural pro   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3351 characters.]  Artist bio

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