Medium: Oil
Support: Canvas
Artist: Cullen Yates
Artist Dates: 1866 - 1945
Country of Origin: United States of America
Title & Description: Painting depicts an American pasture landscape with stone wall surrounded by trees. Likely upstate New York or Connecticut.
Signature: Signed lower right
Date of Work: Late 19th/ Early 20th C.
Frame: Period
Work Size: 25" H x 32" W
Frame Size: 31" H x 38" W x 1.5" D
Weight: 13 pounds
Condition: Re-lined, craquelure, some scattered in-paint, minor losses on upper edge.
Meta: painting, art
Artist Biography: Cullen Yates — landscape and still life painter of rivers, coastal scenes, villages, and flowers — was born in Bryan, OH on January 24,1866 and died in Shawnee, PA in July of 1945. He maintained his studio and residence for many years in Shawnee-on-the-Delaware, Monroe County, PA. In New York, Yates studied with William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) and Leonard Ochtman (1854-1934) and at the National Academy of Design. Then, in Paris he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Colarossi Academy, and the Academy Julian under Jean Paul Laurens (1838-1921) and Benjamin Constant (1845-1902.Yates was a elected as an Associate member of the National Academy of Design (ANA) in 1908 and a full member (Academician) of the National Academy (NA) in 1919. He was also a member of the Lotos Club; Salmagundi Club in NYC, 1899; National Arts Club in NYC as a life member; Allied Artists of America in NYC; New York Society of Painters; Century Association in NYC; American Watercolor Society in NYC; and New York Watercolor Club.While exhibiting with the Boston Art Club consecutively from 1903 to 1909, Yates had several addresses in New York City. Other exhibitions and prizes include a bronze medal at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition; Innes Prize, Salmagundi Club in 1907; another prize at the Salmagundi Club in 1921; and a medal at the National Arts Club in 1932.