Born Chicago, Illinois in 1909 and died in Blue Hill, Maine, 1988, Leonore Straus was a sculptor. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, but she was largely a self-taught sculptor whose medium of choice was stone.
Early in her career she was interested in integrating her sculpture with architecture. Finding no work in Chicago during the Depression, she went to New York and from there to Washington D.C. in 1935.
Working for the Resettlement Administration, she mad (showing 500 of 1880 characters). |
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