Catherine Wiley

Catherine Wiley
Self-portrait, 1910s
Born
Anna Catherine Wiley

(1879-01-18)January 18, 1879[1]
DiedMay 16, 1958(1958-05-16) (aged 79)
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Tennessee
Art Students League of New York
Known forPainting

Anna Catherine Wiley (January 18, 1879 – May 16, 1958) was an American artist active primarily in the early twentieth century. After training with the Art Students League of New York and receiving instruction from artists such as Lloyd Branson and Frank DuMond, Wiley painted a series of impressionist works that won numerous awards at expositions across the Southern United States, and have since been displayed in museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Morris Museum of Art. In 1926, Wiley was institutionalized after suffering a mental breakdown, and never painted again.[2]

  1. ^ Wiley's headstone at Old Gray Cemetery lists her date of birth as February 18, 1879; Deaderick (Heart of the Valley, p. 622) lists her date of birth as January 18.
  2. ^ Elizabeth Moore, Anna Catherine Wiley. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2009. Retrieved: 28 June 2011.