Cullen Yates

American (1866-1945)

Born in Ohio in 1866, Yates studied in New York City at the National Academy of Design and with well-known American artist and teacher, William Merritt Chase. During the 1890s, Yates traveled to the Shinnock Hills in New Jersey and became a member of the Shinnock Hills Art Colony; in 1900 and 1901, he traveled to Connecticut with his painter friends and became a pioneer of the Old Lyme Art Colony. He also traveled to Europe, studying at the Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Beginning in 1910, Yates left New York City to summer in Monroe County, Pennsylvania; he moved there permanently in 1923. Throughout his lifetime, Yates also traveled up the coast into New England, spending time in Ogunquit, Maine and on Monhegan Island.

Yates exhibited his works at the National Academy of Design, the Boston Art Club from 1903-1909, the Corcoran Gallery, the Salmagundi Club, the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His works are held in the National Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Montclair (NJ) Art Museum, the Florence Griswold Museum and others.