Nationality American-Canadian Known for Sculptor and designer Died 1968, Newmarket, Canada | Education Frances Loring Name Florence Wyle Movement Neoclassicism | |
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Born 1881 Trenton, Illinois, US Patrons Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook | ||
Florence Wyle (November 14, 1881 – 1968) was an American-Canadian sculptor and designer. She practiced chiefly in Toronto, living and working with her partner Frances Loring. She co-founded the Sculptors' Society of Canada with Alfred Laliberte, Florence Wyle, Elizabeth Wyn Wood, Wood's teacher and husband Emanuel Hahn and Henri Hebert.
Contents
- Education and training
- Publications
- Career and official commissions
- Portraits by other artists
- Posthumous honour
- References
Education and training
Wyle was born in Trenton, Illinois and in 1900 enrolled at the University of Illinois as a pre-med student. Three years later (1903) she transferred to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she began studying clay modeling with Lorado Taft. She studied modelling and sculptural design in the USA under Frances Loring.
From 1913,when she moved to Toronto to join Loring who had moved there the year before to 1968 she worked as a sculptor in clay, plasticine, stone and wood. Most of her carvings were executed by herself.
Wyle was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists (1920–1933, then from 1948), Sculptors Society of Canada (1933) Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (associate 1920, full member 1938) and the Canadian Guild of Potters.
Publications
The Shadow of the Year, poems by Florence Wyle. wood engravings by Rosemary Kilbourne. Toronto, The Aliquando Press, 1976
Career and official commissions
Wyle preferred architectural projects that were large in scale compared to her partner Frances Loring. She was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Her work was often exhibited by the Women's Art Association of Canada.
Portraits by other artists
Wyle was the subject of at least one portrait by Loring.
Posthumous honour
In 2000 the Canadian Portrait Academy made Wyle an Honorary Academician naming her one of the Top 100 Artists of the 20th Century.