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| birth_date = 1881
| birth_date = 1881
| birth_place = [[Trenton]], [[Illinois]], [[USA]]
| birth_place = [[Trenton, Illinois]], US
| death_date = 1968
| death_date = 1968
| death_place = Newmarket, Ontario
| death_place = [[Newmarket, Ontario]], Canada
| nationality = [[USA|American]]-[[Canada|Canadian]]
| nationality = American-Canadian
| field = Sculptor and designer
| partner = [[Frances Loring]]
| training = Frances Loring
| known_for = Sculptor and designer
| movement = NeoClassical
| training = [[Frances Loring]]
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| patrons = [[Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook]]
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| influenced by =[[Walter Seymour Allward]]
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'''Florence Wyle''' (1881 – 1968) was an [[USA|American]]-born [[Canada|Canadian]] [[sculptor]] and [[designer]]. She practiced chiefly in Toronto Ontario living and working with her partner sculptor [[Frances Loring]]. She co-founded the [[Sculptors' Society of Canada]] with [[Alfred Laliberté]], Florence Wyle, [[Elizabeth Wyn Wood]], Wood's teacher and husband [[Emanuel Hahn]] and [[Henri Hébert]].
'''Florence Wyle''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (November 14, 1881 – January 14, 1968) was an American-Canadian sculptor, designer and poet; a pioneer of the Canadian art scene.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title=Frances Wyle: Human anatomy classes turned her from medicine to sculpture.|date=January 15, 1968|work=The Globe and Mail}}</ref> She practiced chiefly in [[Toronto]], living and working with her partner [[Frances Loring]], with whom she shared a studio and home for almost sixty years.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Pilcher|first=Alex|title=A Queer Little History of Art|publisher=Tate Publishing|year=2017|isbn=978-1-84976-503-9|location=London|pages=33}}</ref> In 1928, with Loring, [[Alfred Laliberté]], [[Elizabeth Wyn Wood]], [[Emanuel Hahn]] and Henri Hébert, she co-founded the [[Sculptors' Society of Canada]],<ref>{{Cite web
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| url = http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/030001-1164-e.html}}</ref>{{dead link|date=December 2024}} which she served as president in 1942.<ref name=":0" /><ref>
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| title = Canadian Almanac and Miscellaneous Directory
| date = 1942
| publisher = Copp, Clark
| access-date = 14 December 2024
| quote = SCULPTORS' SOCIETY OF CANADA[:] President, Florence Wyle, R.C.A., S.S.C.
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She was the first woman sculptor to become a full member of the [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=And Beauty Answers: The Life of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle| last=Cameron |first=Elspeth |publisher=Cormorant Books Inc|year=2007|isbn=978-1897151136}}</ref> Throughout her career, alongside Loring, she persistently and convincingly advocated for policy, tax benefits and [[living wage]]s in support of artists' work.


==Biography==
==Biography==
===Education and training===


Wyle was born in [[Trenton, Illinois]], [[USA]] and moved to [[Toronto]] in [[1913]]. She studied modelling and sculptural design in the USA under [[Frances Loring]].
Wyle was born in [[Trenton, Illinois]] and in 1900 enrolled at the [[University of Illinois]] as a pre-med student where anatomy classes awakened in her a wonder and reverence for human anatomy.<ref>
Petteys, Chris, "Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900", G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985
</ref><ref name=":0" /> Three years later (1903) she transferred to the [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]] where she began studying clay modeling with [[Lorado Taft]].<ref>Boyanoski, Christine, Loring and Wyle: Sculptors Legacy, Art Gallery of Ontario, Musée des Beaux-Arts de l’Ontario, Toronto, 1987, pp. 1–3.</ref> She studied modelling and sculptural design in the US with [[Frances Loring]].


From 1913 - 1968 she worked as a sculptor in clay, plasticine, stone and wood. Most of her carvings were executed by herself.
Wyle moved to [[Toronto]] in 1913 to join Loring who had moved there the year before. Wyle worked as a sculptor in clay, plasticine, stone and wood until her death in 1968. Most of her carvings were executed by herself. One of her early works, ''Sun Worshipper'' (1916) is a bronze female nude "basking in the rays" and arching her body in a way that "hints more than a little at sexual pleasures."<ref name=":1" />


Wyle was a member of the [[Ontario Society of Artists]] (1920–1933, then from 1948), the [[Sculptors Society of Canada]] (1933), the [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]] (associate 1920, full member 1938) and the [[Canadian Guild of Potters]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=122|accessdate=July 23, 2014|title=WYLE, Florence|work=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative|publisher=[[Concordia University]]}}</ref>
===Private life===

Wyle lived an open life with her same sex partner Frances Loring in a converted Church/schoolhouse they bought together in [[Moore Park, Toronto]]. Their home was a Mecca for artists of their time.


===Career and official commissions===
===Career and official commissions===
Wyle preferred to make sculpture that was small in scale and concerned with pure form compared with that of her partner [[Frances Loring]]. Curators observe that she had a better grasp of modelling and anatomy.<ref name="jacob ">{{cite book |last1=Jacob |first1=Luis |title=article, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Movement |date=2021 |publisher=McMichael Canadian Art Collection |location=Kleinburg, Ontario |page=177|url=https://ago.ent.sirsidynix.net/client/en_GB/agolibrary/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:135543/ada?qu=sarah+milroy&d=ent%3A%2F%2FSD_ILS%2F0%2FSD_ILS%3A135543%7EILS%7E10&te=ILS&lm=EXCLUDERARE |access-date=3 September 2023}}</ref>


She was made a member of the [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]].<ref name=RCA1880>{{cite web|title=Members since 1880 |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |accessdate=September 11, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |archive-date=May 26, 2011 }}</ref> Her work, like Loring's, was often exhibited by many institutions such as the Royal Academy of Arts, the [[Ontario Society of Artists]], the [[Sculptors Society of Canada]] and the [[Women's Art Association of Canada]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Holmlund|first1=Mona|last2=Youngberg|first2=Gail|title=Inspiring Women: A Celebration of Herstory|page=216 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XhHUzUwJtA4C&pg=PA216|access-date=2014-07-05 |year=2003|publisher=Coteau Books|isbn=978-1-55050-204-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Holmlund|first1=Mona|last2=Youngberg|first2=Gail|title=Inspiring Women: A Celebration of Herstory|page=216 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XhHUzUwJtA4C&pg=PA216|accessdate=July 5, 2014 |year=2003|publisher=Coteau Books|isbn=978-1-55050-204-6}}</ref><ref name="mastin ">{{cite book |last1=Mastin |first1=Catharine |title=article, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Movement |date=2021 |publisher=McMichael Canadian Art Collection |location=Kleinburg, Ontario |page=171|url=https://ago.ent.sirsidynix.net/client/en_GB/agolibrary/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:135543/ada?qu=sarah+milroy&d=ent%3A%2F%2FSD_ILS%2F0%2FSD_ILS%3A135543%7EILS%7E10&te=ILS&lm=EXCLUDERARE |access-date=3 September 2023}}</ref> Small figurines in wood which were part of the Dominion Drama Festival trophy set were among her commissions the year she was 80.<ref name=":0" /> The Ontario Veterinary College has one of her pieces, a bas-relief panel 13' high depicting farm animal.<ref name=":0" /> The late Pearl McCarthy, art critic for the ''Globe and Mail'', once said that large or small, cats or heroes, the sculpture of Frances Wyle had a lyrical as well as classical quality.<ref name=":0" />
Wyle preferred architectural projects that were large in scale compared to her partner [[Frances Loring]].


1926 - St. Stephen War Memorial
*1926 – St. Stephen War Memorial
1957 - Mother and Children, Canadian National Exhibition
*1957 – ''Mother and Children'', Canadian National Exhibition


===Portraits by other artists===
===Posthumous honour===
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In 2000 the Canadian Portrait Academy made Wyle an Honorary Academician naming her one of the Top 100 Artists of the 20th Century.


==Publications==
Wyle was the subject of at least one portrait by Loring.
*{{cite book|last1=Wyle|first1=Florence|title=Poems|date=1959|publisher=Ryerson Press|location=Toronto|language=en}}
*{{cite book|last1=Wyle|first1=Florence|last2=Kilbourn|first2=Rosemary|title=The shadow of the year: poems|date=1976|publisher=Aliquando Press|location=Toronto|language=en}}


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==References==
===Posthumous Honour===
{{Reflist}}

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In 2000 the [[Canadian Portrait Academy]] made Wyle an Honourary Academician naming her one of the Top 100 Artists of the 20th Century.

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===References===
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==External links==
==External links==
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* [http://www.ago.net/assets/files/pdf/special_collections/SC029.pdf Florence Wyle archival papers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205010932/http://www.ago.net/assets/files/pdf/special_collections/SC029.pdf |date=February 5, 2017 }} at the Art Gallery of Ontario research library and archives
*{{cite web|title=Loring and Wyle collection|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/library/special-collections-archives/collections/loring-and-wyle-collection|publisher=University of Waterloo Library|accessdate=January 4, 2018|date=July 22, 2014}}

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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Sculptor
| DATE OF BIRTH = November 24, 1881
| PLACE OF BIRTH = Trenton, Illinois, USA
| DATE OF DEATH = January 14, 1968
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Latest revision as of 04:31, 14 December 2024

Florence Norma Wyle
Born1881
Trenton, Illinois, US
Died1968
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
NationalityAmerican-Canadian
EducationFrances Loring
Known forSculptor and designer
MovementNeo-Classical
PartnerFrances Loring
Patron(s)Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook

Florence Wyle RCA (November 14, 1881 – January 14, 1968) was an American-Canadian sculptor, designer and poet; a pioneer of the Canadian art scene.[1] She practiced chiefly in Toronto, living and working with her partner Frances Loring, with whom she shared a studio and home for almost sixty years.[2] In 1928, with Loring, Alfred Laliberté, Elizabeth Wyn Wood, Emanuel Hahn and Henri Hébert, she co-founded the Sculptors' Society of Canada,[3][dead link‍] which she served as president in 1942.[1][4] She was the first woman sculptor to become a full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[5] Throughout her career, alongside Loring, she persistently and convincingly advocated for policy, tax benefits and living wages in support of artists' work.

Biography

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Wyle was born in Trenton, Illinois and in 1900 enrolled at the University of Illinois as a pre-med student where anatomy classes awakened in her a wonder and reverence for human anatomy.[6][1] Three years later (1903) she transferred to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she began studying clay modeling with Lorado Taft.[7] She studied modelling and sculptural design in the US with Frances Loring.

Wyle moved to Toronto in 1913 to join Loring who had moved there the year before. Wyle worked as a sculptor in clay, plasticine, stone and wood until her death in 1968. Most of her carvings were executed by herself. One of her early works, Sun Worshipper (1916) is a bronze female nude "basking in the rays" and arching her body in a way that "hints more than a little at sexual pleasures."[2]

Wyle was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists (1920–1933, then from 1948), the Sculptors Society of Canada (1933), the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (associate 1920, full member 1938) and the Canadian Guild of Potters.[8]

Career and official commissions

[edit]

Wyle preferred to make sculpture that was small in scale and concerned with pure form compared with that of her partner Frances Loring. Curators observe that she had a better grasp of modelling and anatomy.[9]

She was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[10] Her work, like Loring's, was often exhibited by many institutions such as the Royal Academy of Arts, the Ontario Society of Artists, the Sculptors Society of Canada and the Women's Art Association of Canada.[11][12][13] Small figurines in wood which were part of the Dominion Drama Festival trophy set were among her commissions the year she was 80.[1] The Ontario Veterinary College has one of her pieces, a bas-relief panel 13' high depicting farm animal.[1] The late Pearl McCarthy, art critic for the Globe and Mail, once said that large or small, cats or heroes, the sculpture of Frances Wyle had a lyrical as well as classical quality.[1]

  • 1926 – St. Stephen War Memorial
  • 1957 – Mother and Children, Canadian National Exhibition

Posthumous honour

[edit]

In 2000 the Canadian Portrait Academy made Wyle an Honorary Academician naming her one of the Top 100 Artists of the 20th Century.

Publications

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  • Wyle, Florence (1959). Poems. Toronto: Ryerson Press.
  • Wyle, Florence; Kilbourn, Rosemary (1976). The shadow of the year: poems. Toronto: Aliquando Press.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Frances Wyle: Human anatomy classes turned her from medicine to sculpture". The Globe and Mail. January 15, 1968.
  2. ^ a b Pilcher, Alex (2017). A Queer Little History of Art. London: Tate Publishing. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-84976-503-9.
  3. ^ "Frances Loring, Florence Wyle – Themes – Celebrating Women's Achievements – Library and Archives Canada". Retrieved February 6, 2011.
  4. ^ "Canadian Almanac and Miscellaneous Directory". Copp, Clark. 1942. Retrieved December 14, 2024. SCULPTORS' SOCIETY OF CANADA[:] President, Florence Wyle, R.C.A., S.S.C.
  5. ^ Cameron, Elspeth (2007). And Beauty Answers: The Life of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. Cormorant Books Inc. ISBN 978-1897151136.
  6. ^ Petteys, Chris, "Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900", G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985
  7. ^ Boyanoski, Christine, Loring and Wyle: Sculptors Legacy, Art Gallery of Ontario, Musée des Beaux-Arts de l’Ontario, Toronto, 1987, pp. 1–3.
  8. ^ "WYLE, Florence". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Concordia University. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
  9. ^ Jacob, Luis (2021). article, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Movement. Kleinburg, Ontario: McMichael Canadian Art Collection. p. 177. Retrieved September 3, 2023.
  10. ^ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on May 26, 2011. Retrieved September 11, 2013.
  11. ^ Holmlund, Mona; Youngberg, Gail (2003). Inspiring Women: A Celebration of Herstory. Coteau Books. p. 216. ISBN 978-1-55050-204-6. Retrieved July 5, 2014.
  12. ^ Holmlund, Mona; Youngberg, Gail (2003). Inspiring Women: A Celebration of Herstory. Coteau Books. p. 216. ISBN 978-1-55050-204-6. Retrieved July 5, 2014.
  13. ^ Mastin, Catharine (2021). article, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Movement. Kleinburg, Ontario: McMichael Canadian Art Collection. p. 171. Retrieved September 3, 2023.
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