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Ernest Fiene, born in the Rhineland in 1894, began the serious study of art there at the age of twelve. At seventeen he fled the army draft and came to the United States, completing his art studies at the National Academy of Design, Art Students League, and the Beaux Arts Institute. Famous collectors-Rockefeller, Clark, Kaufman, Mrs. Whitney own his canvases. A vast mural of the needle trades industry was commissioned to him. Since 1922 he has had fifteen one-man shows, is included in all important exhibitions throughout the country. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1932. Two of his lithographs are reproduced in the litho- graphic section of the Encyclopedia Brittanica. He is represented with works in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Denver Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Los Angeles Museum, Newark Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Public Library, Dartmouth College, Columbia University, Ohio University and the Mia Collection, Japan.