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During the 1940s and 1950s women artists were not always appreciated and seen as polished educated women artist. As an inspiring painter, printmaker and art teacher Florence McClung accomplished many awards in her life time, faced a difficult period of discrimination towards women artist, and faced exclusion by printmaker companies. On the other hand, McClung did not let anything impede her great achievements. McClung was born at St. Louis, Missouri in 1894 and moved to Dallas in 1899 where she remained. She studied art in the Dallas studios of Texas artists where she received a B.A. in art and English and a B.S in education. In 1939, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York bought McClung’s painting (Lancaster Valley, 1936) which made her the

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