11 Facts About Frances Loring

Frances Loring was a member of both the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and the Ontario Society of Artists.

Frances Loring was the creator of two notable sculptures in Canada, Queen Elizabeth Way Monument, located now in Toronto and a statue of Robert Borden, located on Parliament Hill, Ottawa.

Frances Loring is closely associated with fellow sculptor Florence Wyle, and they became two of the earliest prominent Canadian sculptors.

Frances Loring was born in Wardner, Idaho on October 14,1887 to mining engineer Frank Curtis Frances Loring and Charlotte Moore.

Frances Loring studied at multiple schools including the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Switzerland, the Academie Colarossi in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in Boston, and at the Art Students League of New York.

At the Art Institute of Chicago Frances Loring met Florence Wyle with whom she was to have a lifelong partnership.

In 1909 Frances Loring moved to New York City and was joined by Wyle.

Frances Loring was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and was the chief organizer of the Federation of Canadian Artists and the Canada Council of the Arts.

Frances Loring's work was often exhibited by the Women's Art Association of Canada.

Frances Loring created hundreds of different pieces of art in a large variety of materials, including public monuments, sculptures and memorials during the First World War, war memorials after the war, architectural sculptures, portraits, and garden sculptures.

Frances Loring created a portrait of Prime Minister Robert Borden in bronze and various war memorials in Cambridge, Ontario.