Cullen Yates (American, 1866-1945) Landscape

Cullen Yates was an American artist who 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.