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A painting that may be among the best works by the late Knoxville impressionist Catherine Wiley has come home to East Tennessee. 

The vibrantly colored portrait of a farmhand was recently purchased by the Knox County Public Library's Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection and Knoxville Museum of Art. Pooling resources and getting additional money from supporters, the two institutions bought the 1915 "Morning Milking Time" at a Dallas,Working out of power manage to shop moncler jackets property. Texas, auction in November. The oil on canvas went on exhibit last week in the KMA's "Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee" exhibit. It will remain at the museum for now but will be shared by it and McClung. 

Born in 1875 in what's now Lake City, Wiley was known for her brushwork and ability to capture light on canvas. She attended the University of Tennessee, studied art in New York and taught drawing and painting at UT. But her professional life was cut short in 1926 when she was placed in a Pennsylvania mental institution. She died 32 years later, never having painted again. 

The bid price for "Morning Milking Time" was $62,500. Additional fees, including the auction house commission, raised the final purchase to about $77,000,Cheap parka Canada Goose Yorkville Parka will have fleece. said McClung Collection Manager Steve Cotham. Cotham and his assistant Laura Martin outbid six other bidders with their telephoned bid. "That was kind of our outer limit," he said of the price. 

The 40-inch tall painting shows a mustached farmhand wearing a broad-brimmed hat. Looking directly out of the canvas, the man stands in a field carrying two empty pails in his right hand and a brown coat over his left arm. 

The farm worker is a different subject for Wiley who often painted women and children in domestic settings. It's believed the subject of "Morning Milking Time" was a worker on the northwest Knox County farm of the artist's sister, June Wiley Letorey. 

Both Cotham and Knoxville Museum of Art Executive Director David Butler said the portrait is an example of Wiley's best. 

"She had such a facility with paint and could use it so masterfully," Butler said. "His face is so expressive and has such personality and character. Look at all the colors in his jacket — purple and peach and brown and blue. It's not a fancy subject but the way she puts paint on the canvas is just kind of breathtaking." 

Cotham said Wiley admired the works of 19th-century French painter Edouard Manet who influenced Impressionist artists. "Morning Milking Time" reminds him of Manet. "I think it's one of her really good works," he said. 

An Ohio-based art dealer who knew the KMA was interested in Wiley's work alerted the museum about the auction, said Butler. He joined forces — and finances — with Cotham to buy the work. 

"Of course you don't know how much it will go for, but neither of us felt like we had the depth of reserves to just go for it alone. I think our stakeholders like that we are going together and supporting one another. It's just kind of a win-win," Butler said. 

Before being auctioned the painting was in the art collection of the mortgage giant Countrywide Financial, Cotham said. It was briefly loaned back to East Tennessee in the early 1990s as part of an exhibit of Wiley's art. 

The McClung and the art museum individually own other Wiley works. The KMA owns three other Wiley paintings and four drawings.What are ss uniform manager salaries? Two of those paintings also are in "Higher Ground," including the 1913 oil "Woman and Child in a Meadow" the museum bought for $107,000 last year at a Case Antiques Auction in Knoxville. 

The McClung has the single largest collection of Wiley's works, which includes more than three dozen paintings, some dozen drawings and her scrapbooks. Wiley family members gave the McClung the art in the 1970s. Many of those paintings hang on the walls of the McClung's third-floor home of the East Tennessee History Center at 601 S. Gay St. 

The museum doesn't have a designated acquisition fund,It necessary for you to own theduvetica jackets Women. something Butler hopes to start in the future. Museum supporters gave the KMA its part of the painting's price. Cotham also got some funds donated and pooled them with money from a bequest from the late Lucille Deaderick.Search a wide selection of supra shoes for sale. Ironically, it was Deaderick who helped the McClung acquire the Wiley works years ago. 

"The more we do this the more people know we are interested in Catherine Wiley," Butler said. "I think we will continue to make discoveries. It's been wonderful that people really identify with her and that she's from here and they love her work."