Lemuel M. Wiles | |
|---|---|
| Born | Perry, New York, U.S. |
| Died | January 28, 1905 Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Children | Irving Ramsey Wiles |
Lemuel M. Wiles (1826–1905) was an American landscape painter.
Early life
Lemuel Maynard Wiles was born on October 21, 1826, in Perry, Wyoming County, New York.[1] He studied landscape painting with Jasper Francis Cropsey.[1]
Career
Wiles taught school in Perry, Utica and Albany.[1]
Wiles served as the Head of the Art Department at the University of Nashville.[1][2][3] He also served as the Director of the College of Fine Arts at Ingham University.[1]
Wiles was an early traveler to California.[1] His journey took him via the Isthmus of Panama all the way to the West Coast.[1] Once in California, he did many landscape paintings of Spanish towns.[1] In his lifetime, his paintings were often exhibited at the National Academy of Design.[1] Moreover, he painted the Cucamonga Valley in 1874.[4]
Personal life
Wiles resided at 101 West 55th Street in Manhattan.[1] He had a son, Irving Ramsey Wiles, who became a portrait painter.[1]
Death and legacy
Wiles died of pneumonia on January 28, 1905, in Manhattan, New York City.[1][2][5]
His artwork can be seen in the Perry Public Library's Stowell-Wiles Gallery in his home town of Perry, New York,[6] and in private collections. Additionally, his painting of the Cucamonga Valley is in the collection of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.[4] Furthermore, his bust, designed by sculptor Chester Beach in 1922, is on the grounds of the Le Roy Central School in Le Roy, New York.[7]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Lemuel M. Wiles. Son of Daniel Wiles and Nancy Ann Richards". The New York Tribune. New York City. January 29, 1905. p. 10. Retrieved December 1, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 "Lemuel Wiles". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. January 29, 1905. p. 22. Retrieved December 1, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Dillingham, George A. Jr. (Fall 1978). "The University of Nashville, A Northern Educator, and A New Mission In the Post-Reconstruction South". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 37 (3): 336. JSTOR 42625882.
- 1 2 "Lemuel M. Wiles - Artworks". The Athenaeum. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
- ↑ "Lemuel Wiles, Artist, Dies of Pneumonia". The Washington Times. Washington, D.C. January 29, 1905. p. 3. Retrieved December 1, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "CONTENTdm". nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
- ↑ "Memorial to Lemuel M. Wiles, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved December 1, 2015.