biography of Leroy Milton YALE (1841-1906)
Birth place: Holmes' Hole (now Vineyard Haven, MA)
Death place: Quisset, MA
Addresses: active in New Bedford, MA area, 1881-1906
Profession: Painter, etcher
Studied: Columbia College, 1862; Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1866; primarily self-taught in art
Exhibited: Boston AC, 1882; Brooklyn AA, 1883
Member: NYEC (a founder,1877; pres., 1877-79)
Work: Print Dept., NYPL has selection of his best work, with a manuscript catalogue of his etchings as well as original plates and tools illustrating the technique of the art; Old Dartmouth Hist. Soc.
Comments: Yale came to Nonquitt, MA, every summer, and was a friend of R. Swain Gifford. He made several hundred etchings, mostly landscapes, and later turned to pastels.
Sources: Blasdale, Artists of New Bedford, 211-212 (w/repro.)