Art Gallery of Ontario
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Toronto, ON M5T 1G4
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1881 Trenton, Illinois - 1968 Toronto, Canada. Known for: Sculptor-figure and animal, torso.
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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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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.... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
Florence Wyle - Artist Info
About Florence Wyle: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (3)
All MuseumsCanadian War Museum
1 Vimy Place
Ottawa, ON K1A 0M8
CanadaThe Robert McLaughlin Gallery
72 Queen Street
Civic Centre
Oshawa, ON L1H 3Z3
Canada