Aline Rhonie

Aline Rhonie
Aline Rhonie

Aline Rhonie

American aviator and artist, 1909–1963
BiographyBorn in York, Pennsylvania, and raised in New Jersey, Rhonie began to study art with John Sloan as a teenager. In the 1930s she studied mural painting with Diego Rivera and painted a massive aviation-themed mural for a hangar at Roosevelt Field, Long Island. Also a notable aviator, Rhonie learned to fly at age 21. She worked as a commercial pilot and participated in the British war relief effort during World War II.
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    American painter, illustrator, and lithographer, 1889–1975
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    American painter, muralist, and illustrator, 1910–1981
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    French painter and printmaker, 1875–1963
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    American painter, printmaker, sculptor, 1885–1973