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.)

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