The Tile Club: Camaraderie and American Plein-Air Painting The Tile Club | Page 95

Members of the Tile Club, Twelve Ceramic Tiles,
1878–79; 1898, Minton and Wedgwood; mounted
in a pair of wooden doors with two bronze plaques
by an unknown sculptor and E. Saroldi, 42 x 42 in.,
Guild Hall of East Hampton, gift of the David
Tyson Foundation, Carolyn Tyson and Edith Frankel,
supplemented by the Guild Hall Purchase Fund.
The rare set of Tile Club doors features two bronze
plaques, one by an unknown sculptor, the other by
Enrico Saroldi (Italian, 1878–1954), titled Il Primo
Peccato (Original Sin) and dated 1909. Below are
twelve tiles by: Charles Reinhart; Frederick Dielman;
Arthur Quartley; F. Hopkinson Smith; R. Swain
Gifford; Edward Strahan (Earl Shinn); J. Alden
Weir; and Walter Paris.
Walter Paris
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