| Born in Utica, New York, Irving Wiles was educated at the Sedgwick Institute, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He considered a career as a violinist, but rather began to learn the basics of art from his father and Lemuel Maynard Wiles, at the age of 17. The following year he had exhibited at the National Academy of Design. He then studied at the Art Students League under James Carroll Beckwith and William Merritt Chase from 1879 to 1881. Chase not only influenced his styl (showing 500 of 2903 characters). |
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
Paris Pre 1900
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