At the Clothesline
by Irving Ramsay Wiles (1861–1948)18 x 22 inches
Signed lower right: Irving R. Wiles
Provenance
Spanierman Gallery, New York, New York
Donald Brenwasser, New York, New York, purchased from above, 1966
Thomas Colville, Fine Art, LLC, Guilford, Connecticut
Private collection, New York, New York
Exhibited
Chapellier Galleries, New York, New York, Irving R. Wiles, 1861–1948, November 1967
Literature
Irving R. Wiles, 1861–1948 (New York: Chapellier Gallery, 1967), n.p., pl. 18.
Note: This work may depict the artist’s daughter, Gladys, who Irving Ramsay Wiles frequently painted throughout his career.
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