TitleSelf-Portrait
Artist
Irving Ramsay Wiles
(1861-1948)
Date1897
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 24 1/8 × 17 1/8 in.
Framed: 34 1/8 × 30 1/4 × 1 3/4 in.
SignedSigned upper right: "Irving R. Wiles/1897"
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of the family of Samuel T. Shaw, 1946
Object number1420-P
Label TextOriginally painted for his wife, Wiles's Self-Portrait was acquired by his patron, Samuel T. Shaw, at an unknown date. When hearing of the intention of Shaw's descendants to give the work to the Academy, he wrote: "It was very kind of the Shaw family to give my `Self-Portrait' to the Academy, whether or not it is good. I've not seen it in so many years that I can't say as to that." Earnest and straightforward, Wiles has concentrated on the firm facial structure and a clear depiction of the way in which light falls across its planes.
