MARY FIFE LANING (1900-1990)A native of Dayton, Ohio, Mary Fife studied at the Art Students League, New York, with Kenneth Hayes Miller. There, with her future husband, Edward Laning, Fife became part of the Miller circle with Reginald Marsh and Isabel Bishop. She lived most of her life in Brooklyn, NY. A member of the National Association of Women Artists, in the 1940s she taught at the Kansas City Art Institute. Work by Mary Fife was shown at the Butler Art Institute, Ohio, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, as wells as in the exhibitions Between Heaven and Hell, Union Square in the 1930s, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1996, and The New York Intaglio Figure, 1917 to 1954, the Susan Teller Gallery, NY, 2006.
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