Mary Fife Laning

Mary Fife Laning
Born Mary Elizabeth Fife
1898 or 1900
Canton or Dayton, Ohio
Died 1991
Nationality American
Education Art Students League
Known for Painting
Spouse(s) Edward Laning

Mary Fife Laning was an American painter and wife of the more prominent Edward Laning.

Career

Mary Elizabeth Fife was born in 1898 or 1900[1] in Canton, Ohio.[2]

In 1923, she earned a B.A. from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. In 1925-1927, she did postgraduate work at Cooper Union. In 1928, she studied at the Academie Russe in Paris.[2]

From 1930 to 1935, she studied at the Art Students League under Kenneth Hayes Miller. There she met her husband, Edward Laning, whom she married in 1933. The Lanings became part of the Miller circle with Reginald Marsh and Isabel Bishop.[2]

The Lanings lived most of their lives in Brooklyn, New York.[2]

In the 1940s, as a member of the National Association of Women Artists, Laning taught (with her husband) at the Kansas City Art Institute.[2]

She survived her husband by a decade, dying in 1991.[1][2][3]

Works

Fife's work has exhibited at the Butler Art Institute, Ohio, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[2]

Paintings include:

Exhibitions[1] included:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Mary Fife Laning (1900-1990)". Susan Teller Gallery. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Mary E. (Mrs. Edward) Fife (1898 - 1990)". Ask Art. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Mary Fife Laning". Find a Grave. Retrieved 31 January 2013.

External sources


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