Lemuel M. Wiles

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Lemuel M. Wiles
Born
DiedJanuary 28, 1905
Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
OccupationPainter
ChildrenIrving Ramsey Wiles

Lemuel M. Wiles (1826–1905) was an American landscape painter.

Early life[edit]

Lemuel Maynard Wiles was born on October 21, 1826, in Perry, Wyoming County, New York.[1] He studied landscape painting with Jasper Francis Cropsey.[1]

Career[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Wiles died of pneumonia on January 28, 1905, in Manhattan, New York City.[1][2][5]

His artwork can be seen in the Perry Public Library's Stowell-Wiles Gallery in his home town of Perry, New York,[6] and 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.[7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Lemuel M. Wiles. Son of Daniel Wiles and Nancy Ann Richards". The New York Tribune. New York City. January 29, 1905. p. 10. Retrieved December 1, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ a b "Lemuel Wiles". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. January 29, 1905. p. 22. Retrieved December 1, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  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.
  4. ^ a b "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. Open access icon
  6. ^ "CONTENTdm". nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  7. ^ "Memorial to Lemuel M. Wiles, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved December 1, 2015.