Catherine Wiley Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Catherine Wiley Art Value Price Guide

Jul. 06, 2024
Catherine Wiley O/C, Woman with Green Parasol
Est: $60,000 - $70,000
PRE-APPROVAL BY 5 PM ET THURSDAY JULY 4 IS REQUIRED TO BID ON THIS LOT. PLEASE CONTACT CASE AUCTIONS, INC. FOR DETAILS. (865) 558-3033 or BID@CASEAUCTIONS.COM Anna Catherine Wiley (Tennessee, 1879-1958) oil on canvas painting of a woman in a white dress, viewed from below, seated on a split rail fence with a green parasol held in her left hand, under a cloud-filled blue sky. The subject looks to the viewer's left as her upswept hair blows in the wind and her parasol shades her face and the upper half of her body. The branches of a tree extend into the sky at the upper left while two additional trees flank a distant mountain range behind her. Signed and dated "Catherine Wiley 1911" lower right. Housed in the original giltwood frame. Canvas: 33 5/8" H x 25 5/8" W. Frame: 40 1/2" H x 32 3/4" W. Exhibition History: Knoxville Museum of Art; A Gilded Age: Knoxville Artists, 1875-1925; September 15, 1995-January 14, 1996. Biography: Catherine Wiley is one of Tennessee's most important nationally recognized artists. She was one of the early female students at the University of Tennessee, and was later credited with establishing formal art instruction at the school. Wiley studied at the Art Students League in New York under Frank DuMond, and spent summers learning from major American impressionists such as Robert Reid, Jonas Lie, and Martha Walter. She won numerous prizes including two Gold Medals at the Appalachian Exposition in 1910 and her paintings were exhibited at prominent American venues including the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Her thriving career was ended by a mental collapse which left her institutionalized until her death. PROVENANCE: Living Estate of Dr. Jerry Waters and Collection of Dr. Carole Wahler.
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Jan. 27, 2024
Catherine Wiley O/C East Tennessee Fall Landscape Painting
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Anna Catherine Wiley (TN, 1879-1958) oil on canvas landscape depicting an autumnal meadow with a large tree with orange foliage and a figure in the middle ground. Set beneath a partly cloudy, atmospheric sky. Signed lower right in red, "Wiley." Housed in a hand-carved giltwood frame. Sight: 24 1/4" H x 32 1/4" W. Framed: 34" H x 38 3/4" W. Note: At least two other, similar meadow landscapes by Wiley are known. A painting currently in the collection of the Tennessee State Museum and titled "Gathering in the Woods" is almost identical in both size and composition. Biography: Catherine Wiley is one of Tennessee's most important nationally recognized artists. She was one of the early female students at the University of Tennessee, and was later credited with establishing formal art instruction at the school. Wiley studied at the Art Students League in New York under Frank DuMond, and spent summers learning from major American impressionists such as Robert Reid, Jonas Lie, and Martha Walter. She won numerous prizes including two Gold Medals at the Appalachian Exposition in 1910 and her paintings were exhibited at prominent American venues including the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Her thriving career was ended by a mental collapse which left her institutionalized until her death.
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Jan. 25, 2020
Catherine Wiley Oil on Canvas Beach Scene
Est: $20,000 - $24,000
Anna Catherine Wiley (TN, 1879-1958) oil on canvas beach scene depicting two young seated females shaded under a parasol on a beach. Signed monogram upper left. Additionally pencil inscribed verso "C. Wiley (1532?) White Ave Knoxville Tenn". Housed in the original molded gilt wood frame. Sight - 14" H x 15" W. Framed - 21 1/2" H x 22 1/2" W. Biography: Catherine Wiley is one of Tennessee's most important nationally recognized artists. She was one of the early female students at the University of Tennessee, and was later credited with establishing formal art instruction at the school. Wiley studied at the Art Students League in New York under Frank DuMond, and spent summers learning from major American impressionists such as Robert Reid, Jonas Lie, and Martha Walter. She won numerous prizes including two Gold Medals at the Appalachian Exposition in 1910 and her paintings were exhibited at prominent American venues including the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Her thriving career was ended by a mental collapse which left her institutionalized until her death. PRE-APPROVAL IS REQUIRED TO BID ON THIS LOT. PLEASE CONTACT CASE ANTIQUES, INC. AT THE KNOXVILLE GALLERY FOR DETAILS. 865-558-3033 or BID@CASEANTIQUES.COM.
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Jul. 13, 2019
Catherine Wiley O/C Forest Landscape
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Anna Catherine Wiley (TN, 1879-1958) oil on canvas on board impressionist landscape, depicting a sun-dappled path leading through a forest. Signed lower right "Catherine Wiley". Housed in the original carved and painted frame. Additionally signed en verso on artist's board label. Otto Hylen Company/Nashville, TN label also en verso. Sight - 13 3/4" H x 9 5/8" W. Framed - 19 1/2" H x 15 3/4" W. Provenance: Originally from the collection of Thomas and Lola King, Nashville, TN. Descended through the family to the current owner. Biography: Catherine Wiley is among Tennessee's most important painters. She played a crucial role in developing visual arts in Knoxville as well as bringing attention to Southern female artists. She was one of the first women to study art at the University of Tennessee, and taught art and drawing there from 1905 until 1918. While teaching at the university, she wrote art reviews for the Knoxville News Sentinel, created illustrations for the Volunteer college yearbook, served as President of the Nicholson Art League, and Director of the Fine Arts Department of Knoxville's National Conservation Exposition. Wiley also studied at the Art Students League in New York under Frank DuMond and William Merritt Chase, and spent summers learning from major American Impressionists such as Robert Reid, Jonas Lie, and Martha Walter. She won two gold medals at the Appalachian Exposition in 1910 for "Most Meritorious Collection" and claimed the prize for the best Southern artist at the Southwestern Fair in Atlanta in 1917. Her paintings, often depicting women in picturesque settings with vivid colors and expressive strokes, were exhibited at many prominent venues including the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1926, after the death of her father (1919) and mentor Lloyd Branson (1925), Wiley suffered a mental collapse which ended her painting career. She remained institutionalized until her death, and is now buried in Old Gray Cemetery in Knoxville, TN. (Additional high-resolution photos are available at www.caseantiques.com.)
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Jul. 13, 2019
Catherine Wiley O/C, The Pea Shellers
Est: $40,000 - $44,000
Anna Catherine Wiley (Knoxville, TN, 1879-1958), "The Pea Shellers," impressionist oil on canvas painting depicting three women seated on the porch of an East Tennessee home, Wolf Creek, shelling peas. The women are seated in ladderback chairs, filling woven baskets with green peas while pods accumulate on the floor; sunlight filters through foliage in the background. According to oral history, the three women in the scene are Helen Peck Allen, Nell Allen and "Mary," a housekeeper. Miss Wiley was a friend of the Allen family and spent summer weeks at the Allen family estate at Wolf Creek, visiting Helen Peck Allen (in whose family this painting has descended). It was during one of these visits that Wiley painted this scene. Wolf Creek was a summer vacation community located in eastern Cocke County, alongside the French Broad River and bordering the Tennessee and North Carolina state line. The Allen house was also known as the Wolf Creek Inn. Note: This painting was exhibited at the Knoxville Museum of Art's as part of their ongoing exhibit, "Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee". Wolf Creek was the setting for several Wiley paintings including "Farmstead" and "Indian Woman at Wolf Creek" both illustrated in the 1990 TN State Museum exhibit catalog titled "Southern Impressionist: The Art of Catherine Wiley", pages 15 and 34. Housed in a later gilt wood frame with egg and dart molded rabbet edge. Sight - 19 1/2" H x 23 1/8" W. Framed - 24 1/2" H x 28 1/2" W. Provenance: the collection of Helen Peck Allen, by descent to her son David Allen Dashiell, by descent to Georgia Ryan Mott Dashiell. "The art of Catherine Wiley has long been considered one of the more beautiful manifestations of Southern impressionism. Her animated broken brush work, her colorful sun splashed fields and her endearing depictions of genteel ladies and well-dressed children at rest and play seem to suggest a life lived quietly and at peace with the world. Yet her life may well have been far more turbulent, and her descent into the state of madness, which removed her from the world for the last 37 years of her life, far more apparent in her art than simple summations of her importance would imply. Large numbers of women entered the art world towards the end of the 19th century, their pathway smoothed by the arts and crafts route which saw them ushered on from sewing circles and homebased kilns into actual studios where they were taught by the male masters of the day. Catherine Wiley was one of those. She studied at the Art Students League in New York with Frank Vincent Dumond prior to returning to her native Knoxville where she became an associate of Lloyd Branson, the most important local artist of the day. She was a pioneer instructor at the University of Tennessee Art Department and a frequent winner of citations for her work at regional exhibitions, notably acclaimed for most meritorious collection at the Knoxville Appalachian Exposition in 1910. The Pea Shellers, here offered for auction, can be seen as one of the more telling revealing moments in her progress as an artist. Compositional format in her early work is largely horizontal, her decorative figures placed mid-field without any implication of depth or forced perspective. But in The Pea Shellers her subjects have moved inside a shed and are actually at work. Gone is the wide spread vista, replaced by the tri-angular projection of the roof shed over which trailing vine drops into the scene, a spontaneous insertion of nature in motion, as yet untrimmed. Her palette, though still bright, is here more tonal, an essay in the close color harmonics of blue and green which impart a slight shimmer to the otherwise mundane occupation of the inhabitants. This painting is surely mid-career. By 1923 she was painting in a far darker mood. "Under The Arbor," (Morris Museum of Art) has a well dressed young woman standing at dazed attention beneath a canopy of black leaves, out of place with her setting, even as the setting itself is distant from lush agrarian idealism. By 1925 her mind was gone. One of her final paintings, to be seen at the East Tennessee Historical Society, is so heavily thick with paint that the actual scene itself is unclear, a swirling abstraction lost in space. The Pea Shellers importance springs from what it tells the viewer about Catherine Wiley’s potential, as it seems to indicate that she was beginning to move on from pastoral post card reveries towards an artistic expression more concerned with life than with appearance. It is a painting that can be viewed as evidence that her full potential as an artist was never to be seen by we, her subsequent viewers, for which we are all poorer."-- Estill Curtis Pennington, art historian and author, "Southern Impressionist: The Art of Catherine Wiley," exhibit catalog for the 1990 exhibit at the Tennessee State Museum. (Additional high-resolution photos are available at www.caseantiques.com.)
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Jan. 01, 2018
Catherine Anna Wiley (1879-1958), oil on board, Mountainous Landscape, signed lower right: Catherine Wiley, 14" x 10"
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Catherine Anna Wiley (1879-1958), oil on board, Mountainous Landscape, signed lower right: Catherine Wiley, 14" x 10"
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Jan. 25, 2014
Catherine Wiley, O/C Mountain Landscape
Est: $9,000 - $12,000
Anna Catherine Wiley (1879-1958) impressionist oil on canvas landscape painting, depicting a field of corn shocks in the foreground against a mountainous background. The scene is reminiscent of Cade's Cove in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Signed lower right C. Wiley. Later giltwood frame with linen liner. Canvas size: 16" x 12". Framed: 22" x 17". Biography: Catherine Wiley is one of Tennessee's most important nationally recognized artists. She was one of the early female students at the University of Tennessee, and was later credited with establishing formal art instruction at the school. Wiley studied at the Art Students League in New York under Frank DuMond, and spent summers learning from major American impressionists such as Robert Reid, Jonas Lie, and Martha Walter. She won numerous prizes including two Gold Medals at the Appalachian Exposition in 1910 and her paintings were exhibited at prominent American venues including the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Her thriving career was ended by a mental collapse which left her institutionalized until her death. Provenance: Private Tennessee collection. Proceeds from the sale of this painting benefit the Earl O. Henry Memorial Avian Exhibit at Ijams Nature Center. The exhibit showcases pre-World War II avian taxidermy and the art of Knoxville bird painter Earl O. Henry, one of the men killed in the 1945 attack on the USS Indianapolis.
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Sep. 15, 2012
Anna Catherine Wiley
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
(Tennessee, 1879-1958)Gathering in the Woods, signed lower right "Catherine Wiley" and titled on exhibition label verso, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 in.; original gilt wood and composition frame, lined and restretched on original stretcher, retouch at repaired tear at upper left middle in sky and at center left, repaired tear in trees and scattered at other points primarily at left edge, stretcher marks, some flattening; frame resurfaced and with minor losses to composition
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