The Village Street
by Irving Ramsay Wiles (1861–1948)17¾ x 22 inches
Signed lower left: Irving R Wiles
Provenance
The Milch Galleries, New York, New York
Torsten and Beatrice Forsberg, Old Greenwich, Connecticut
Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, December 4, 2002, lot 2, from above
Vance Jordan Fine Art Inc., New York, New York, acquired from above
Literature
Geoffrey K. Fleming, Irving Ramsay Wiles, N.A., 1861–1948: Portraits and Pictures, 1899–1948 (New York: Southold Historical Society, 2010), 89, no. 96.
Artist Biography
A master of both portraiture and landscape painting, Irving Ramsay Wiles used an expressive palette and brushwork in the impressionist tradition.
By Nina Sangimino
I. Biography
II. Chronology
III. Collections
IV. Exhibitions
V. Memberships
VI. Notes
VII. Suggested Resources
I. Biography
Irving Ramsay Wiles was destined to become an artist; his father Lemuel Maynard Wiles was a landscape painter who studied under William M. Hart and Jasper Francis Cropsey. Shortly after Irving’s birth in Utica, New York, the Wiles family moved to New York City in order for
