Florence Julia Bach

American (1887-1978)

Born in Buffalo, New York in 1887, sculptor and painter Florence Julia Bach studied at the Buffalo School of Fine Arts, Art Students League with William Merritt Chase and Frank Vincent DuMond and later, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Fontainebleu under Louis Lejeune. In the 1930s, Bach traveled to Italy, France and Germany for further study. She taught at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy for twenty-nine years.

Bach was a member and served as President from 1929 to 1930 of the Buffalo Society of Artists, where she also exhibited and won numerous prizes and awards between 1915 and 1924. She also exhibited at the Buffalo Centennial in 1932, won the Syracuse Regional Purchase Prize in 1941, and the Popular Prize at the Carnegie Institute in 1949. Bach participated in several shows at Grand Central Art Galleries in New York, including solo exhibitions in 1944 and 1951.

Bach’s works are held in the permanent collections of the Buffalo Arts Academy and Louise and Alan Sellars Collection.