Lucia Wiley

Lucia Wiley (1906–1998) was a noted WPA muralist and painter born and raised in Tillamook, Oregon. Lucia Wiley was the oldest of six children and always found herself eager in art, even at a youth age. In 1923 Wiley stated "He who has an art has every where a part," in her tall school yearbook. In 1924 Wiley started intellectual at the University of Minnesota where she pursued a degree in Good arts. In 1928 she transferred to the University of Oregon to extra her studies and in 1930, she conventional a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in fine arts. Lucia went on to additional her schooling and graduated as soon as a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Oregon. Her pretense appears in several U.S. Post Offices, including one titled Captain Gray Entering Tillamook Bay in Tillamook, and at the University of Oregon at Eugene. In 1939 Wiley painted a WPA commissioned mural titled Early Logging at Koochichin Falls for the United States publicize office in International Falls, Minnesota. She painted the mural decoration, Occupations, at the Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota.