Object Record
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Artist |
Wiley, Catherine |
Title |
Morning |
Medium |
oil paint on canvas |
Date |
1921 |
Description |
Catherine Wiley (Coal Creek [now Rocky Top], Tennessee 1879-1958 Norristown, Pennsylvania) Morning, 1921 Oil on canvas 47 x 41 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 1972 gift of the Women's Committee of the Dulin Gallery Anna Catherine Wiley was one of the most active, accomplished, and influential artists in Knoxville during the early twentieth century. She taught art at the University of Tennessee, helped organize area art exhibitions, and was a driving force in the Nicholson Art League, a prominent local art association. Wiley studied with Frank DuMond at the Art Students League in New York and spent summers in New England working with Impressionist Robert Reid. She returned to Knoxville following her studies and brought with her a mastery of Impressionism. Wiley specialized in scenes of women amid their daily lives rendered in thick, brightly colored pigment. Morning features a more expressive variety of brushwork often seen in her late paintings. Wiley's work is represented in museum collections around the country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her promising career ended in 1926 when she was confined to a psychiatric hospital where she was without access to her studio supplies. The exact nature of the artist's illness remains unconfirmed. |
Catalog Number |
1972.11.01 |
Search Terms |
Oil paintings Paintings Canvas Women Bedrooms Beds Portraits Women Artists Portrait paintings Dulin Gallery of Art Nicholson Art League University of Tennessee |
Credit line |
Gift of the Women's Committee of the Dulin Gallery |