Frances Loring

Frances Norma Loring October 14, 1887 – February 5, 1968 was a Canadian sculptor based in Toronto, Ontario. Her work can be seen in many galleries and public spaces in Toronto and elsewhere.

Born in Wardner, Idaho to mining engineer Frank Curtis Loring (1859-1938) and Charlotte Moore, Loring studied in Europe before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied with Lorado Taft. At the Institute she met Florence Wyle with whom she was to have a lifelong partnership. In 1911 the two moved to Toronto, eventually establishing a studio in a converted church schoolhouse at 110 Glenrose Avenue in the Moore Park neighborhood. In 1928 Loring and Wyle were founding members of the Sculptors' Society of Canada in 1928 with Alfred Laliberté, Elizabeth Wyn Wood, Wood's teacher and husband Emanuel Hahn and Henri Hébert. She was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Her work was often exhibited by the Women's Art Association of Canada.

In 1960, works by Loring along with those of Edmund Alleyn, Graham Coughtry, Jean Paul Lemieux and Albert Dumouchel represented Canada at the Venice Biennale.

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  Frances Loring's Sir Robert Borden (1957) at Parliament Hill Ottawa, Ontario

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  Frances Loring's Lion sculpture at the base of the Queen Elizabeth Way Monument

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  Bust of Frederick Banting

Through her father, Francis Loring was a seventh great grand daughter of Deacon Thomas Loring, who was ancestor of many Lorings in North America.