1. Florence Norma Wyle was an American-Canadian sculptor, designer and poet; a pioneer of the Canadian art scene.
10 Facts About Florence Wyle
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Florence Wyle practiced chiefly in Toronto, living and working with her partner Frances Loring, with whom she shared a studio and home for almost sixty years.
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Florence Wyle was the first woman sculptor to become a full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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Florence Wyle studied modelling and sculptural design in the US with Frances Loring.
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Florence Wyle moved to Toronto in 1913 to join Loring who had moved there the year before.
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Florence Wyle worked as a sculptor in clay, plasticine, stone and wood until her death in 1968.
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Florence Wyle was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists, the Sculptors Society of Canada, the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and the Canadian Guild of Potters.
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Florence Wyle preferred to make sculpture that was small in scale and concerned with pure form compared with that of her partner Frances Loring.
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Florence Wyle was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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The late Pearl McCarthy, art critic for the Globe and Mail, once said that large or small, cats or heroes, the sculpture of Frances Florence Wyle had a lyrical as well as classical quality.