Florence
Wyle
Born in Trenton, Clinton, Illinois, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Solomon Benjamin Wyle
and Libbie A. (Sandford) Wyle
Sister of
Cora Belle (Wyle) Rogers, Elmer Benjamin Wyle, Mabel Kate (Wyle) Boyer and Frank Ausben Wyle
Died
at age 86
in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 23 Oct 2015
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Biography
Florence Wyle is Notable.
Florence Wyle is/was a significant Ontarian .
Born in 1881 in Trenton, Illinois,[2] Florence was the child of Ben Wyle, a druggist, and his wife Libbie Sandford, [3] and the twin sister of Frank Wyle. In 1903, after studying medicine at the University of Illinois for three years, she decided to study sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
She and her partner, fellow sculptor Frances Loring, moved to Canada in 1913. They shared a home and studio in Toronto, Ontario, for nearly fifty years. They were enumerated in the Census of Canada, 1921, living at 110 Glenrose Avenue.[4]
Florence died in 1968, the same year as Frances Loring. Their wills included a provision for the income from the sale of their works to be used to purchase the work of young sculptors for public galleries.
Biographies
- And Beauty Answers: The Life of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle by Elspeth Cameron (2007) ISBN 9781897151136
- The Girls : a biography of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle by Rebecca Sisler (1972) ISBN 978-0-7720-0578-6
Publications by Florence Wyle
- Poems. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1959.
- The Poems of Florence Wyle: sculptor, painter, poet and lover of life. Ottawa: 1970-79.
- The Shadow of the Year: Poems. Toronto: Aliquando Press, 1976.[5]
Honours
- The Loring-Wyle Parkette is located on the northeast corner of Mt. Pleasant Road and St. Clair Avenue East in the Moore Park area of Toronto, Ontario.
- She was designated a National Historic Person in 2011.[6]
- The Canadian Portrait Academy made Wyle an Honorary Academician in 2000 and named her one of the Top 100 Artists of the 20th Century.[7]
Sources
- ↑ Canadian Encyclopedia entry
- ↑ "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V22K-JHX : accessed 23 October 2015), Florance Wyle, 24 Nov 1881; Birth, citing Trenton, Clinton, IL; FHL microfilm 1,007,029.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS4R-5FV : accessed 24 October 2015), Florence H Wyle in household of S B Wyle, Waverly city Ward 1-3, Morgan, Illinois, United States; citing sheet 3A, family 68, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,332.
- ↑ Census of Canada, 1921, Toronto, Ontario
- ↑ Canadian Women Artists History Initiative
- ↑ Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations
- ↑ Wikipedia: Florence Wyle
- Wikidata: Item Q5460818, en:Wikipedia
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