Paddle Wheeler and Schooner on the River, 1916
by Irving Ramsay Wiles (1861–1948)9¾ x 14 inches
Signed lower right: Irving R. Wiles; on verso: To Arthur H. Clark Eq. / From Irving R. Wiles April 1920 / New London CONN / Aug - 1916
Provenance
Arthur H. Clark, 1920
Private collection
Sale, Bonhams, Boston, Massachusetts, January 23, 2020, lot 236, from above
Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, acquired from above
Note: Arthur H. Clark was a ship captain and collector of marine art. Many works from his collection are now held in the MIT Museum.
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
