"Item #AT-0504- James Gale Tyler (1855-1931) "Sailing on the High Seas" Oil on Canvas

Item #AT-0504
James Gale Tyler (1855-1931)
"Sailing on the High Seas"
Oil on Canvas

Description:

James Gale Tyler (1855-1931)
Sailing on the High Seas
Oil on Canvas
Unframed:18 x 15.25 in.
Frame: 21 1/4 x 18 1/2 in.
Signed l.l.
Period Gilt Frame

This is a wonderful oil painting of a late 19th century schooner with its dinghy following behind on the eastern coast possibly New Jersey. In the distance is another schooner with its dinghy.

James Gale Tyler was born in Oswego, NY in 1855, of a long line of sea captain ancestors. His interest in maritime subjects began as a young child, living on Lake Ontario. He moved to New York City at the age of 15, and studied marine painting under Archibald Cary Smith (1837-1911), one of the great marine artists of his day. This was the only formal art training he ever received.

He painted ships, seascapes, and yachting scenes, and quickly gained recognition among art collectors and yachtsmen. Additionally, Tyler worked as an illustrator and contributing writer to publications including Harper’s, Century, and Literary Digest.

In 1892, an exhibition of 67 paintings by Tyler was held at Fifth Avenue Art Galleries in New York City. (At that time, Tyler maintained a studio in New York.) The following year, Tyler’s monumental oil, painted in 1888, Norman’s Woe, of the famously treacherous reef off Gloucester, MA, was exhibited at the World's Columbian Exhibition, held in Chicago in 1893. The painting traveled from Chicago by rail car to the Art Palace, San Francisco, where it was exhibited at the Midwinter Fair, 1894.

Among Tyler’s most coveted paintings are his yachting scenes, of which he painted a very limited number. These include several compositions devoted to America’s Cup challenge races.

Towards the end of Tyler’s career, he moved to Greenwich, CT and for several years painted a series of oils of clipper ships sailing by moonlight, all very similar in subject matter and style. These dark pictures, however, pale in comparison to his earlier works.

James Gale Tyler moved to Pelham, NY in 1931, where he died later that year.

Tyler’s paintings are in the permanent collections of the Corcoran Gallery, the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Omaha Museum of Art, Mariner’s Museum, Peabody-Essex Museum, and the New York Historical Society, and others.

Mr. Halloway's first marriage in 1916 to Charlotte Rudegard, assistant editor of Harper's Magazine, ended in a divorce in 1926. Later, he married Aurelia Caloenesco, a Romanian artist. Their paintings were shown jointly in exhibitions in the Rehn Gallery, Ferargil Galleries, and Macbeth Gallery in New York, as well as in Chicago and Philadelphia. They also held invitational exhibitions at The Rochester Museum of Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington.

His work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), The Metropolitan Museum, Brooklyn Museum, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Rochester Museum of Art, The Phillips Memorial Gallery in Washington, The Lewis Sun College Collection, N.Y., Delaware Art Museum, Art Museum at the University of Saint Joseph, Hartford CT, Bates Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, Addison Gallery of Art Andover, Massachusetts, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, and Harvard University Museum. One of Robert Halloway's best-known works is the portrait of the late John S. Reed, which hangs in Adam's House at Harvard.
Robert Hallowell died January 26, 1939, at the Staten Island Hospital of a heart attack. He was 52 years old.