TitleDay Dreams
Artist
Irving Ramsay Wiles
(1861-1948)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 50 × 31 in.
Framed: 62 3/8 × 43 1/2 × 4 in.
SignedSigned lower right: "Irving R. Wiles"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1422-P
Label TextWiles's painting of a woman lost in thought in the dappled light under leafy tree boughs was reproduced as "Dreaming" in an unidentified clipping in the Chapellier Gallery Papers (AAA N68-101, fr. 579). The article discussed it as an embodiment of "Art for Art's Sake," its only purpose being "beauty."When it was shown at the Academy in 1895, it was awarded the Hallgarten Prize.
In 1906, Wiles wrote to the Academy, "The title of my diploma picture is, if I remember right 'Sunshine and Shadow.'" Anyway that name will do as well as another." Another Wiles painting (Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection) bears the title "Sunlight and Shadow."
