Cause of death pneumonia Occupation Painter | Children Irving Ramsey Wiles Name Lemuel Wiles | |
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Died January 28, 1905
Manhattan, New York City, U.S. Residence 101 West 55th Street, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. | ||
Lemuel M. Wiles (1826-1905) was an American landscape painter.
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Early life
Lemuel M. Wiles was born in 1826 in Perry, New York. He studied landscape painting with Jasper Francis Cropsey.
Career
Wiles taught school in Perry, Utica and Albany.
Wiles served as the Head of the Art Department at the University of Nashville. He also served as the Director of the College of Fine Arts at Ingham University.
Wiles was an early traveler to California. His journey took him via the Isthmus of Panama all the way to the West Coast. Once in California, he did many landscape paintings of Spanish towns. In his lifetime, his paintings were often exhibited at the National Academy of Design. Moreover, he painted the Cucamonga Valley in 1874.
Personal life
Wiles resided at 101 West 55th Street in Manhattan. He had a son, Irving Ramsey Wiles, who became a portrait painter.
Death and legacy
Wiles died of pneumonia on January 28, 1905 in Manhattan, New York City.
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. 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.