Idleness (Afternoon Tea)

Details

IRVING RAMSAY WILES (1861-1948)
Idleness (Afternoon Tea)
signed 'Irving R. Wiles' (lower right)
oil on canvas
26 x 36 ¹/₄ in. (66 x 92.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1889.

Provenance

Edward Eberstadt & Sons, New York.
William Doyle Galleries, New York, 9 November 1994, lot 110.
Private collection.
The Manoogian Collection, Taylor, Michigan.
Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2008.

Literature

"Gallery and Studio: The Society of American Artists and Its Exhibition," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 19, 1889, p. 13.
K. Sharp, Summer Leisure in the Gilded Age: American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, Chicago, Illinois, 2005, p. 12, pl. 24, illustrated (as Afternoon Tea).
G.K. Fleming, Irving Ramsay Wiles, N.A. (1861-1948): Portraits and Pictures, 1899-1948, New York, 2010, p. 83, no. 50 (as Afternoon Tea).

Exhibition

New York, Society of American Artists, 1889, no. 167.
Memphis, Tennessee, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Celebrate America: 19th Century Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, February 7-April 18, 1999, pp. 114-15, no. 48, illustrated (as Afternoon Tea).
Vero Beach, Florida, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Masters of Light: Selections of American Impressionism from the Manoogian Collection, January 30-April 23, 2006, pp. 72-73, no. 17, illustrated (as Afternoon Tea).
Amherst, Massachusetts, Amherst College, Mead Museum of Art, January 11, 2010-October 31, 2011, on loan.