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Irving Ramsey Wiles Art

American, 1861-1948
Irving Ramsey Wiles, born in Utica, New York, renounced his original plan of becoming a violinist to become a painter instead. After having completed his studies in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, he began his art training at the age of 17, first learning the basics from his father, Lemuel Maynard Wiles, whose studio was on Washington Square Park. Having showed considerable talent and skill at an early age, the young Wiles exhibited at the National Academy of Design just one year after he began painting. His mature style, however, began to flourish under the tutelage of established and esteemed American painters, William Merritt Chase and James Carroll Beckwith, with whom he studied at the Art Students League from 1879 to 1882. Wiles was greatly inspired by Chase’s style and skill, and their relationship developed into a great friendship. Wiles went to Paris in 1882 where he was a student of Carolus-Duran, Jules Lefebvre, and Boulanger at the Academie Julian before returning to New York City in 1884. For several years it was necessary for him to work for Scribner’s, Century, and Harper’s magazines in order to make ends meet as he was unable to support himself from portraiture alone. In 1897 Wiles was elected to the National Academy Design and was finally able to devote more time to his figurative and portrait paintings. He was widely commissioned by important clientele, including Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan. Although Wiles was known and esteemed for portraiture, he painted landscape and and still lifes as well, always working in a blend of Impressionism and realism, styles he had adopted from his training in both the United States and France.
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"Glad and Rhododendron" Irving Ramsey Wiles, American Impressionist Portrait
"Glad and Rhododendron" Irving Ramsey Wiles, American Impressionist Portrait

"Glad and Rhododendron" Irving Ramsey Wiles, American Impressionist Portrait

By Irving Ramsey Wiles

Located in New York, NY

Irving Ramsey Wiles Glad and Rhododendron, circa 1927 Inscribed indistinctly with title (on the turnover) Oil on canvas 46 x 40 inches Provenance The artist Estate of the artist Hir...

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1920s American Impressionist Irving Ramsey Wiles Art

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Still Life with Flowers
Still Life with Flowers

Still Life with Flowers

By Irving Ramsey Wiles

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861-1948) Still Life with Flowers, c. 1915 Oil on canvas 14 x 12 inches (35.6 x 30.5 cm) Signed upper right: Irving R. Wiles Provenance Thomas Colville Fine Ar...

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Seated Nude
Seated Nude

Seated Nude

By Irving Ramsey Wiles

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Provenance Private collection, St. Petersburg, Florida; Arthur and Holly Magill, Greenville, South Carolina, acquired from the above; Sotheby’s, New York, 30 November 2000, lot 11, s...

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Late 19th Century Aesthetic Movement Irving Ramsey Wiles Art

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At the Clothesline
At the Clothesline

At the Clothesline

By Irving Ramsey Wiles

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While most renowned for his portraits, Irving Ramsay Wiles also practiced plein-air painting throughout his entire career, incorporating the impressionist techniques he learned from ...

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Paddle Wheeler and Schooner on the River
Paddle Wheeler and Schooner on the River

Paddle Wheeler and Schooner on the River

By Irving Ramsey Wiles

Located in New York, NY

Signed lower right: Irving R. Wiles; on verso: To Arthur H. Clark Eq. / From Irving R. Wiles April 1920 / New London CONN / Aug - 1916

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