Lot 74: Cullen Yates (1866 - 1945)"Festiva Maxima"

Cullen Yates (1866 - 1945)"Festiva Maxima" Still life. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. With 4 gallery/exhibition stamps verso. One label from Grand central gallery (NY). Housed in a gilt stenciled framed. Yates was a elected as an Associate member of the National Academy of Design (ANA) in 1908 and a full member (Academician) of the National Academy (NA) in 1919. He was also a member of the Lotos Club; Salmagundi Club in NYC, 1899; National Arts Club in NYC as a life member; Allied Artists of America in NYC; New York Society of Painters; Century Association in NYC; American Watercolor Society in NYC; and New York Watercolor Club. While exhibiting with the Boston Art Club consecutively from 1903 to 1909, Yates had several addresses in New York City. Other exhibitions and prizes include a bronze medal at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition; Innes Prize, Salmagundi Club in 1907; another prize at the Salmagundi Club in 1921; and a medal at the National Arts Club in 1932. Collections include the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, MA; Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC; City Art Museum in St. Louis, MO; Seattle Gallery in Seattle, WA; Ball State University Museum of Art in Muncie, IN; Brooklyn Institute Museum; Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, OH; Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsburg, PA; Montclair Art Museum in NJ; Reading Public Museum in Reading, PA; Butler Art Institute; Seattle Art Institute; National Arts Club, NYC; Lotos Club; and the Newark Museum in NJ.