Mary Elizabeth Fife was born in 1898 or 1900[1] in Canton, Ohio.
[2] From 1930 to 1935, she studied at the Art Students League under Kenneth Hayes Miller.
The Lanings became part of the Miller circle with Reginald Marsh and Isabel Bishop.
[2] In the 1940s, as a member of the National Association of Women Artists, Laning taught (with her husband) at the Kansas City Art Institute.
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