 Riner Florence is primarily known as Florence Wilkins Furst
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An example of work by Riner Florence
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Biography from AskART:
| Florence Wilkins Furst was born in 1885 in Delavan, Wisconsin. She studied at Rockford College in llinois with George Oberteufer, Ivan Olinsky, Violet Oakley, and Lucie Hartrath. She also studied in Paris.
Furst was a member of the Chicago Art Club, the Rockford Art Association,
the Studio Guild, the American Artists Professional League, and the National Arts Club, and she exhibited at the Chicago Art Club; Allied Artists of America; Century of Progress, Chicago, 1933; Society of Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida; New York Public Library; Springfield Illionis Museum of Art; and the 1939 World's Fair in New York.
She won awards at the All-Illinois Society of Fine Arts (gold); the Rockford Art Association in 1936; and the Palm Beach Art League 1939.
Her work is found in the State Museum in Springfield, Illionis.
She died in 1955 in Freeport, Illinois.
Source:
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art" 1999. |
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