Marian Spore Bush
Marian Spore Bush left her successful Michigan dental practice for a studio in Greenwich Village, New York City, and became a selftaught painter in the 1920s. She claimed her large surrealistic works were inspired by longdead artists who were communicating with her from beyond the veil. Her predictions of the future, her unusual artwork, her work with the poor in New York Citys Bowery, and her eventual marriage to Irving T. Bush incited much interest in the national press.
Marian Spore Bush was born Flora May Spore in Bay City, Michigan, on October 22, 1878, to Melvin and Helen Miller Spore. She attended Western High School in Bay City graduating in 1895 and went on to Ann Arbor to graduate from the University of Michigan College of Dentistry in 1899. Flora opened a dental office in Bay City in 1901 and became the first female dentist in Bay County. She was widely appreciated for her progressive and excellent work in the day when she fabricated inlays, crowns, bridgework, and dental plates in her own laboratory. She was also a pioneer in the field of periodontal dentistry.
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