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Wiley painting sets record at Case's Winter Auction

18.05.12

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – An Impressionist oil on canvas of a mother and child in a sun-dappled meadow fetched $107,880, a record auction price for a Tennessee female artist, at the Winter Case Antiques Auction held Jan. 28 at the company’s gallery in Knoxville. (All prices include the buyer’s premium). The painter was Anna Catherine Wiley (1879-1958), who became a tragic figure in the art world.

Wiley studied at the Art Students League in New York under Frank DuMond, and with Robert Reid, Jonas Lie and Martha Walter, before returning to her native Tennessee, where she helped establish formal art education at the University of Tennessee. A mental breakdown in 1926 is believed to have ended her painting career; she remained institutionalized until her death.

The high bidder was the Knoxville Museum of Art, which mounted a fundraising campaign upon learning of the painting’s existence and had to beat out competition from collectors and dealers in Tennessee, New York and Florida to win it.

Source: Auction Central News

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