Lemuel M. Wiles

Lemuel M. Wiles
Born Perry, Wyoming County, New York, U.S.
Died January 28, 1905
Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Cause of death pneumonia
Residence 101 West 55th Street, 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 M. Wiles was born in 1826 in Perry, 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 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.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Lemuel M. Wiles.". The New York Tribune. New York City. January 29, 1905. p. 10. Retrieved December 1, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. 1 2 "Lemuel Wiles.". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. January 29, 1905. p. 22. Retrieved December 1, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ 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. (registration required (help)).
  4. 1 2 "Lemuel M. Wiles - Artworks". The Athenaeum. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Lemuel Wiles, Artist, Dies of Pneumonia". The Washington Times. Washington, D.C. January 29, 1905. p. 3. Retrieved December 1, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Memorial to Lemuel M. Wiles, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved December 1, 2015.


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