The Student
1910
Painter, American, 1861 - 1948
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)
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Dimensions
overall: 77.79 × 64.14 cm (30 5/8 × 25 1/4 in.)
framed: 102.24 × 88.9 cm (40 1/4 × 35 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.5
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist; purchased 9 December 1910 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;[1] acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The Corcoran did not receive the work until 22 January 1911.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1910
Third Biennial Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 10 December 1910 - 22 January 1911, no. 185, repro.
1916
Portraits by Irving R. Wiles, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, March-April 1916, no. 14.
1939
Loan Exhibition from the Corcoran Gallery of Art: Selected Group of Twenty American Painters, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, March-April 1939, unnumbered checklist.
1967
Irving Ramsay Wiles, Chapellier Gallery, New York, November 1967, no. 4, repro.
1971
The Art of Irving Ramsay Wiles (1861-1948), Albrecht Gallery, St. Joseph, Missouri, 8 April - 30 May 1971, no. 72.
1988
Irving R. Wiles, National Academy of Design, New York; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Fine Arts Center, Nashville, 1988, repro. (shown only in New York).
1998
The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 July - 29 September 1998, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
2002
Gilded Cage: Views of American Women, 1873–1921, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 13 July - 27 August 2002, unpublished checklist.
2003
The Impressionist Tradition in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 19 July 2003 - 18 October 2004, unpublished checklist.
Bibliography
1910
Mechlin, Leila. "Standard Kept Up: Third Biennial Exhibition of the Corcoran Gallery [exh. review]." Evening Star (10 December 1910): 6.
1973
Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 2: Painters born from 1850 to 1910. Washington, 1973: 49.
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 325, repro.
Inscriptions
upper left: Irving R. Wiles
Wikidata ID
Q46632945