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Florence E. Ware

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Parents
  
Walter E. Ware

Born
  
May 6, 1891 (
1891-05-06
)
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Died
  
11 November 1972, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Florence Ellen Ware (1891 - 1972) was an American artist from Utah. She was a painter and a professor of art at the University of Utah for 25 years. She is well known for her murals, sponsored by the WPA and painted in the university's Kingsbury Hall in 1936.

Life and Work

Ware was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her father was architect Walter E. Ware and her mother was Jennie M. Hartley. Her early life included an education in varied arts. She attended the University of Utah, and then the Art Institute of Chicago. Ware began teaching at the University of Utah in 1918.

Ware died in Salt Lake City in 1972.

References

Florence E. Ware Wikipedia