Woodland Stream
Catherine Wiley
Artwork
Lady with Parasol
1879-1958
Oil on canvas
25 1/8 in x 20 1/8 in
Circa 1915
Label:
The daughter of a prosperous coal baron, Catherine Wiley enrolled at the University of Tennessee in 1895, just four years after women became eligible for admission. After two years studying in New York at the Art Students League, she returned to her alma mater to teach art in the home economics department.
Like many women artists working in the Impressionist style, Wiley often chose women to be her sitters. The most captivating aspects of Lady with Parasol are the sunlight and bold impasto. As an extension of her teaching responsibilities Wiley published lectures which reflect her own artistic preferences: “The exhibitions of today are as though flooded with atmosphere—landscapes of vibrating sunlight; . . . [paintings] in which the light of day has crept in, silvering the tops of trees, lighting women's gowns, touching and revivifying all.”
As Published In:
Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection, 2015
Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection, 2018
As Exhibited In:
Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, June 30–October 23, 2018, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, November 16, 2018–January 20, 2019, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, March 2–June 30, 2019, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, July 28–October 13, 2019, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, January 1–August 9, 2020, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, September 7–December 18, 2020, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, February 6–July 18, 2021
Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, November 1, 2015–January 3, 2016, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, January 16–April 10, 2016, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN, January 16–April 10, 2016, Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA, October 13, 2017–March 25, 2018, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, August 28–December 13, 2018
Beauty and Pattern in Common Things, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, March 19–May 28, 2015
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