Florence E. Ware

Florence Ellen Ware (1891 – 1972) was an American artist from Utah. She was a painter and a professor of art at the University of Utah for 25 years. She is well known for her murals, sponsored by the WPA and painted in the university's Kingsbury Hall in 1936. Her father was architect Walter E. Ware and her mother was Jennie M. Hartley. Her early life included an education in varied arts. She attended the University of Utah, and graduated first in her class at the Art Institute of Chicago. Ware began teaching at the University of Utah in 1918.