Edward Dufner
American painter and art teacher
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Edward Dufner (October 5, 1871 – October 1, 1957) was an American painter and art teacher.
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| Born | October 5, 1871 Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
| Died | October 1, 1957 (aged 85) Short Hills, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Resting place | Beaufort, South Carolina, U.S. |
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| Occupations | Painter, art teacher |
| Spouses | Annie L. Collins
(m. 1898; died 1931)Ilka Howells Renwick
(m. 1933; died 1942)
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Life
Dufner was born on October 5, 1871 in Buffalo, New York.[1][2][a] He attended the Art Students League of New York, the Académie Julian, and the Académie Carmen.[4]
Dufner taught at the Art Students League of Buffalo and New York, the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and the Traphagen School of Fashion.[2] He became an Impressionist painter, and he won the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts's Walter Lippincott Prize in 1924.[4]
Dufner married Annie L. Collins on April 23, 1898.[5][6] She died in 1931, and he remarried to the painter Ilka Howells Renwick on October 19, 1933.[1][7] She died on January 2, 1942, and he married a third time to Fern Bradley.[2][8]
He died at his home in Short Hills, New Jersey on October 1, 1957, and was buried in Beaufort, South Carolina.[2]
