biography of Harry NEYLAND (1877-1958)

Birth place: Erie, PA

Death place: South Dartmouth, MA

Addresses: South Dartmouth, MA

Profession: Painter, sculptor

Studied: Zanerian Art Col., Columbus, OH; Pratt Inst.; ASL; in England with Henry Snell; Académie Julian, Paris with J.P. Laurens, 1910; Académie Colarossi, Paris.

Exhibited: Canadian Nat. Acad., Montreal; Ontario Soc. Artists, Ontario; Hamilton Art Assoc., Hamilton, Ontario; NAD; PAFA Ann., 1918; Mem. Art Gall., Rochester, NY; BAC; Providence A. Cl.; New Bedford A. Cl., 1912-20; Am. Fed. Arts (traveling exhib.); Swain Free School Design, New Bedford, 1917; S. Indp. A., 1919

Member: Providence AC.

Work: BAC; PIA School; New Bedford (MA) Country Club; Mariners Mus., Newport News, VA; Mystic Seaport Mus.; Kendall Whaling Mus.; Millicent Libr., Fairhaven, MA; Southworth Libr., South Dartmouth, MA; New Bedford (MA) Free Pub. Libr.; Old Dartmouth Hist. Soc.

Comments: Illustrator: "Cap'n George Fred," 1929. Positions: art dir., NY Military Acad., Cornwall; organizer, Hamilton Art School, Hamilton, Ontario, until 1908; dir., Swain Free School Design, 1911-30.

Sources: WW40; Blasdale, Artists of New Bedford, 128-39 (w/repro.); Falk, Exh. Record Series.