1. Lucia Wiley was a noted New Deal muralist and painter born and raised in Tillamook, Oregon.
17 Facts About Lucia Wiley
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Lucia Wiley was the oldest of six children and always found herself interested in art, even at a young age.
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In 1923 Wiley stated, "He who has an art has every where a part," in her high school yearbook.
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In 1924 Lucia Wiley started college at the University of Minnesota where she pursued a degree in fine arts.
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Lucia Wiley went on to further her schooling and graduated with a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Oregon.
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Lucia Wiley's work appears in several US post offices, including a mural titled Captain Gray Entering Tillamook Bay in Tillamook, and at the University of Oregon at Eugene.
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In 1939 Lucia Wiley painted a post office mural titled Early Logging at Koochichin Falls for the United States post office in International Falls, Minnesota.
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Lucia Wiley painted the mural decoration, Occupations, at the Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Lucia Wiley died on August 20,1998, in New York City.
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Lucia Wiley attended the University of Minnesota for Art Education in 1924 to 1926 before transferring to the University of Oregon to complete a bachelor's degree in fine arts and a master's degree, which she received in 1932.
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Lucia Wiley's thesis was a study of true fresco, a centuries-old technique in which color pigments are added directly to wet plaster.
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Lucia Wiley worked as a Federal Art Project fresco artist from 1938 to 1940, mostly in Minnesota and Illinois.
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Lucia Wiley won a commission, and a group of citizens requested that her fresco be installed in the new post office being built in Tillamook.
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Lucia Wiley held art classes in her Tillamook studio until 1946, when she took a position at the Museum Art School at the Portland Art Museum.
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Sister Lucia Wiley soon became the supervising art teacher at St Hilda's, where she taught math, English, social studies, and religion in the Community's two schools.
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Lucia Wiley became Sister Warden of Associates, serving as an adviser to postulates, novitiates, and ordinates of the Community of the Holy Spirit.
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Lucia Wiley died in Harlem in New York City on August 20,1998.