wiles irving (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Trade Edition. Marine; Nautical; B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Tape repairs to spine of DJ. 1st trade edition. Binding and contents VG.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Exhibition catalog. Small quarto. 95, [16 ads] pp. Illustrated with several etched reproductions of artworks. Tan printed wrappers. Old ink numbers on the front cover and title page, light wear along the spine with a few carefully repaired tiny tears, chip in the lower corner of the front cover, still a near fine copy with a bright interior. The inaugural exhibition of the American Art Association. Lists 231 paintings, most with prices. Artists include Childe Hassam, George Inness, James G. Tyler, William M. Chase, Irving R. Wiles, and others. Published on occasion of the exhibition on display in New York at the American Art Galleries, November 10 through December 10, 1884. The back includes sixteen pages of lovely advertisements by New York City businesses.

Unbound. Zustand: Near Fine. Quarto leaf. Folded for mailing, with a thin crease at artist's signature, but the signature is bold and legible. Letter tipped onto an early quarto sheet of blue heavy stock paper. Also tipped onto the sheet are two small reproductions of artwork by Wiles from periodicals. One page, New York [City], June 10, 1891, to Ben. W. Austin, Secretary of the Trinity Historical Society (in Dallas, Texas). Autograph letter, one page, to "Dear Sir," eleven lines, stating (in part): "Your favor of the 26th May notifying me of my election to an honorary membership of your Sociest is at hand. Kindly reprise. my deep gratification. I regret exceedingly that I have no photographs of myself. I shall be pleased to send you one however when next I have one taken. Sincerely yours, Irving R. Wiles." The son of landscape painter Lemuel M. Wiles, Irving Ramsey Wiles studied painting under his father's tutelage, and later at the Art Students' League in New York, taught by William Merritt Chase, and in Paris under Carolus-Duran, (who taught John Singer Sargent); he became a successful portrait painter. Autograph material of Irving R. Wiles seldom enters the marketplace. No auction records since 1975.