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Wyle, Florence
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Dates of existence
1881-1968
History
Florence Wyle was born November 24, 1881 in Trenton, Illinois. She enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago where she met her life partner Frances Loring. They moved to Greenwich Village in New York in 1909, and then to Toronto in 1913. She is a founding member of the Sculptors Society of Canada (1928). She received a Coronation medal in 1953 for her contributions to Canadian art. Wyle was the first woman accorded full membership in the Royal Canadian Academy of Art. She was also a poet. Her first book "Poems" was published by The Ryerson Press in 1959.
Wyle died January 14, 1968 in Newmarket, Ontario.