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Florence Elizabeth Riefle Bahr (February 2, 1909 – January 12, 1998) was an American artist and activist. She made colored portraits of children, monochromatic portraits of adults, and landscapes. More than 300 sketchbooks catalog insights into her life, including her civil and human rights activism of the 1960s and 1970s. Important captured events included the Washington D.C. event where Martin Luther King, Jr. first gave his ''I Have a Dream'' speech. Her painting ''Homage to Martin Luther King'' hangs in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's headquarters. Besides traditional art forms, Bahr also created collages, wood cuts and linocuts. She created illustrations for children's book and made a mural for Johns Hopkins Hospital's Harriet Lane Home for Children. Her works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions since the 1930s. In 1999 she was posthumously awarded the State of Maryland's Women's Hall of Fame. ==Personal life== Florence Riefle was born in Baltimore, Maryland to parents James Henry Riefle〔(Florence Riefle Bahr. ) Record: MSA SC 3520-13553. Maryland State Archives. June 26, 2008. Retrieved January 23, 2014.〕 and Florence Riefle.〔1930 Baltimore, Maryland; Roll: 869; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 0518 United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.〕 She was the only artist in a musically talented family.〔(Florence Riefle Bahr. ) Maryland Women's Hall of Fame, Maryland State Archives. Retrieved January 24, 2014.〕〔 Bahr grew up in Homeland and Forest Park, Maryland and graduated from Western High School.〔Del Quentin Wilbur. ("Artist Dies in Elkridge Fire: Florence Bahr's Home Destroyed in Two Alarm Blaze." ) ''The Baltimore Sun''. January 13, 1998.〕 She met Leonard Bahr, a portrait painter, who was her teacher at the Maryland Institute. She sat for a portrait that he made of "the lively young woman." In 1934 the couple married and had three children:〔〔〔( ''Florence,'' ) Special Collections. Maryland State Archives. Retrieved January 25, 2014.〕 Mary, Beth and Leonard, Jr.〔Jack Dawson, ("A Family of Artists." ) ''The Sun Magazine,'' January 10, 1982.〕 Leonard taught at the Maryland Institute of Art for more than 50 years, and both of his daughters attended the school.〔 The couple lived in Baltimore in 1936 with their shared studio on the third floor. In an article about her that year, Bahr said that she was mostly interested in her husband and painting; They both "would rather paint than eat." She mentioned a few recreational interests: horseback riding, hiking and swimming.〔 In 1940 Leonard was teaching art and lived with his wife and daughter, Elizabeth (Beth) in Baltimore.〔1940 Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland census. Roll: T627_1524; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 4-400. United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.〕 During World War II, Leonard enlisted in the Navy on March 1, 1944 and was released on December 23, 1945.〔Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.〕 In 1947 they moved to Elkridge, Howard County, Maryland〔 and in the 1960s built a house where Leonard and Florence had their own studios. It was located on Lawyer's Hill.〔 Florence Bahr died in a house fire which also destroyed some, but not all, of her portraits, landscapes and sketches.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Florence Riefle Bahr」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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