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Believed to be Maritime Oil Painting By Florence Wilkins Furst.
Attributed to Florence Wilkins Furst (American 1885-1955) A
HARBOUR SCENE, oil on canvas, fishing boats moored in a harbour, signed lower
right
Large Florence Wilkins Furst Original Oil Painting - Canvas New
Old Stock, Came from a Gallery Clearance. Measures 24" high x 36" wide x 3/4" thick (mounted on 3/4" x 1 1/2" wood backing frame.
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