Program

NYS Historic

Subject

Arts & Culture, People

Location

3412 Suckerbrook Rd, Perry, NY 14530, USA

Lat/Long

42.7214699, -78.033157

Grant Recipient

Wyoming County Historian

Lemuel M. Wiles (1826–1905) was an American landscape painter who studied landscape art in the 1850s with Jasper Francis Cropsey, a well known Hudson River School artist. He traveled to California during the 1849 Gold Rush years where he created many paintings of Spanish towns. His paintings were often exhibited at the National Academy of Design. Wiles taught school in Perry, Utica and Albany, NY and served as the head of the art department at the University of Nashville and as Director of the College of Fine Arts at Ingham University. Wiles died on January 28, 1905 in Manhattan. As of 2019, his painting of the Cucamonga Valley was in the collection of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.