Florence Fink

Artist Details

• First Name Florence
• Maiden Name Waze
• Surname Fink
• Spouse’s Full Name Dr. Jack Peter Fink; married 1944 Russian son of Ysruel Nuchim “Nathan” Fink and Malke Dvora “Dorothy” Radzinsky; parents both Polish
• Names and Birth Years of Children Steven J. (born circa 1951) Cantor Leslie Myna Friedlander (born September 1953) Carol Pratt Abbie Galvin
• Birth Date December 26, 1921
• Birth Place Detroit, Michigan
• Death Date October 27, 2016
• Death Place Glenview, Illinois
• Ethnicity Russian Jewish
• Residence(s) 1940 census: 2950 Webb, Detroit, Michigan with parents and brother
  
  1949: moved to Chicago, Illinois
  
  Lincolnwood, Illinois
  
  Skokie, Illinois
  
  2004: Evanston, Illinois
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Ceramicist, Painter-Oil, Sculptor, Screenprinter, Watercolorist
• Exhibitions History June 14-29, 1958:  1958 Chicago Artists Exhibition, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois: Pattern-City
  
  date unknown: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Modern Street Scene
  
  Old Orchard Art Festival
  
  Evanston Art Center
  
  Figurative Art League
  
  January 15-February 28, 1982: Serigraphs by Florence Waze Fink, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Other Occupation(s) illustrator: Morris Yanoff, The Jews of Long Ago, 1964.
• Biography Parents:  Sam (Austria; circa 1898-?) and Belle Cashwan (Russia circa 1900-?) Waze
  
  Sibling: Herbert Nathaniel Waze (circa 1927- November 28, 2005 Scottsdale, Arizona)