(3) Edward Laning ( New York, Missouri, Illinois, 1906 - 1981) Nude Studies from the estate of Edward Laning. Ink/paper. Sight size: 12.5 x 8.5 inches. Laning studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1923-24) then at the University of Chicago (1925-27). He received further art instruction for the following three years at the Art Students League in New York under Max Weber, John Sloan, Boardman Robinson, Thomas Hart Benton and Kenneth Hayes Miller. Laning owes much of his style to the latter. Laning would have been exposed to the classical monumentality of Renaissance and Baroque mural painting in Rome, where he was in 1929 and 1931. He won travel grants (Guggenheim and Fulbright), exhibited widely, and took part in WPA mural projects. Meanwhile, Laning became an instructor at the Art Students League (1932-33), at the Cooper Union (1940-43) and headed the department of painting at the Kansas City Art Institute (1945-50).