Florence Furst

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Please see the example of her signature. She never signed her work "Florence"

BORN: 1885, Delavan, WI

DIED: 1955, Freeport, IL

Florence Wilkins Furst was born in 1885 in Delavan, Wisconsin. She studied at Rockford College in llinois with George Oberteuffer, Ivan Olinsky, Violet Oakley, and Lucie Hartrath. She also studied in Paris.

Furst was a member of the Chicago Art Club, the Rockford Art Association, the Studio Guild, the American Artists Professional League, and the National Arts Club, and she exhibited at the Chicago Art Club; Allied Artists of America; Century of Progress, Chicago, 1933; Society of Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida; New York Public Library; Springfield Illionis Museum of Art; and the 1939 World's Fair in New York.

She won awards at the All-Illinois Society of Fine Arts (gold); the Rockford Art Association in 1936; and the Palm Beach Art League 1939. 

Her work is found in the State Museum in Springfield, Illinois. 

She died in 1955 in Freeport, Illinois.

Florence Wilkins Furst studied at Rockford College in IL under Lucie Hartrath, Violet Oakley, George Oberteuffer, Ivan Olinsky. She later studied in Paris.

Furst earned an award from the All-Illinois Society of Fine Arts, Rockford Art Associate (1936), and Palm Beach Art League (1939).

She exhibited at the Allied Artists of America; Century of Progress, Chicago (1933); Chicago Art Club; New York Public Library; Society of Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida; Springfield Illinois Museum of Art; and the 1939 World's Fair in New York.

Sources:

Museum of Wisconsin Art, http://wisconsinart.org/archives/artist/florence-wilkins-furst/profile-1212.aspx

Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art, 1999, via askART http://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Florence_Wilkins_Riner_Furst/130267/Florence_Wilkins_Riner_Furst.aspx .