Background
Dufner, Edward was born on October 5, 1871 in Buffalo. Son of Bernhard and Clara (Dold) Dufner.
Dufner, Edward was born on October 5, 1871 in Buffalo. Son of Bernhard and Clara (Dold) Dufner.
Pupil Art Students’ League, Buffalo, New York City. Under James McNeil Whistler, Paris, and Academy Julian under Laurens.
Recipient Albright prize and scholarship Art Students’ League, Buffalo, 1893. Wanamaker prize and honorable mention, Paris, France, 1899. Bronze medal Buffalo Exposition, 1901.
Honorable mention Paris Salon, 1902.
Fellowship prize Society of Artists, Buffalo. 1904; silver medal Saint Louis Exposition, 1904.
William T. Evans prize American Water Color Society, 1909. Julius Levy prize Peabody Institute, Baltimore, 1921.
Walter Lippincott prize Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, 1924.
Gold medal Brown-Bigelow national art competition, New York City, 1925. People prize Newport (Rhode Island) Art Association, 1935. Lucille Dingley prize for figure composition Ogunquist Art Center, 1939.
Founder’s Special prize Sanity in Art Exhibition, Chicago, 1941.
Instructor Art Students’ League, Buffalo, 1903-1907, New York City, 1908-1917, Carnegie Institute Technology, 1921. Now instructor painting and drawing of the class of professional artists, Traphagen School, New York City Represented in the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Brooklyn Institute Fine Arts, William M. Chase collection, National Academy of Design, National Arts Club, Lotos Club (New York City), Milwaukee Art Society, Fort Worth Art Museum, Montclair Art Museum, Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lafayette Art Association, Parthenon Art Gallery (Nashville), Wesleyan College Collection (Macon, Georgia), Vanderpoel Art Association, Chicago, Hanover (Indiana) College and many private collections and in Harvard College library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, A.N.A., 1910, North.A., 1929.
Member of New York Chicago, Water Color Club, American Water Color Society, American Art Association, Paris, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Allied Artists American. Honorary member Buffalo Society Artists.
Clubs: Salmagundi, Lotos, National Arts. Patron Montclair Art Museum. Home and studio: 15 Wyndham Road, Short Hills, New Jersey.
Married Annie L. Collins, 1898. Married second, Ilka H. Renwick, 1933.
