Mary Fife Laning

Mary Fife Laning
Mary Fife Laning
Born	Mary Elizabeth Fife; 1898 or 1900; Art Students League
Known for	Painting
Spouse	Edward Laning

Mary Fife Laning was an American painter and wife of artist 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]

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]

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:

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Mary Fife Laning (1900-1990)". Susan Teller Gallery. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Mary E. (Mrs. Edward) Fife (1898 - 1990)". Ask Art. Retrieved 31 January 2013.

Wooden, Howard E. (1982). Edward Laning, American Realist, 1906-1981: A Retrospective Exhibition: Essay and Exhibition Catalogue. Wichita, Kansas: Wichita Art Museum.
Edward Laning: Paintings and Drawings, March 21-April 18, 1992. New York: Kennedy Galleries. 1992.
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