File contains University of Toronto Vocational Guidance Centre Occupational Information Monograph "Sculptor" with comments on its preparation (1957) and correspondence from the Guidance Centre; an article, "Sculpture and the People" (1943); correspondence from Walter Abell of Canadian Art, rejecting an article Wyle submitted for the magazine (1944); and other material. (Lowe inventory no. 83-90)
File contains biographical information on Frances Loring; "Remarks made by Professor Woodside, Convocation, University of Toronto May 27, 1955" conferring her honorary Doctor of Laws degree; obituaries (6 Feb. 1968) from the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and the Toronto Telegram; Loring family correspondence to Frances Gage (Oct. 1968) regarding her trusteeship of the Loring estate; and a passport (1928). (Lowe inventory no. 9-17); From the 1987 accrual, Frances Loring's birth certification from the State of Idaho, a Canadian naturalization notice and certificate, the obituary note from Who's Who in Canada and a document of sale of mining land-claims (1963).
File contains correspondence, birth certificates and a passport, biographical information on Florence Wyle, with clippings and other material. (Lowe inventory no. 19-38). From the 1987 accrual: a handwritten copy of biographical information sent to the Art Gallery of Toronto (1942).
File contains blankbooks of Forence Wyle's poems, correspondence, leaves of copies of poems, and other material. (Lowe inventory no. 1-12).
File contains Florence Wyle's Diary & Daily Reminder, 1945-[1948?] with entries marked D-1 to 22, LBB-1 to 9, B1-1-65 containing poems and daily notations; an address book with names, addresses and telephone numbers; a calendar containing daily notations for 1965; and other material. (Lowe inventory no. 13-18).
File contains clippings on Loring and Wyle, A.Y. Jackson and the McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, Ont.
Correspondence and other records
Series comprises the 1987 accrual from Loring and Wyle estate co-executor Frances Gage, consisting of
correspondence to Loring and Wyle, estate records, a collection of clippings and a scrapbook;
correspondence to Frances Gage regarding sculptures or biographical information; letters from coexecutor
David Ongley; and posthumous tributes.
Series includes business records from the Pollock Gallery (Toronto), Kristiania Kunst &
Metalstøberi (Oslo, Norway) and Roman Bronze Works (Corona, N.Y.), as well as the 1998 accrual of
correspondence to Sophia Hungerford (1963–1964) regarding a fund for the purchase of Loring and Wyle
sculptures.
Loring, Frances
Correspond-ence with Roman Bronze Works
File contains correspondence between Frances Gage (and others) with the Roman Bronze Works foundry in Corona, N.Y. regarding casting sculptures in bronze; with customs forms and shipping invoices.
File contains Frances Loring's instructions (1959) on cremation ; correspondence from Helen R. Von Dack on Forence Wyle's donation of her body; from the Dept of Anatomy, University of Toronto to Frances Loring about donating her body; from W.A. Nelson (Canada Permanent Trust Co.) to David Ongley on the probate of Loring's and Wyle's estates, 21 Nov. 1968 (copy).File also contains correspondence from W.A. Nelson to the National Gallery of Canada, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Ontario Society of Artists, Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Sculptors Society of Canada regarding a sculpture fund according to the provisions of the wills of Loring and Wyle (1969); from Sybille Pantazzi (Librarian, Art Gallery of Ontario) to Frances Gage acknowledging a gift of books and periodicals from Loring and Wyle's library (1971), with list; and other material.
File contains photos of exhibitions of the sculptures of Loring and Wyle at the Sculptors' Society of Canada (Toronto: 1928, 1935, 1938) and others. File includes 9 photographic prints and 2 contact sheets.