A Life Between Two Shores Born in the Isle of Man, the young man who would become Robert Wylie carried the salt of the sea in his blood long before he ever touched a brush to canvas. His family eventually moved across the Atlantic, settling in the United States, where his early inclinations leaned toward the tactile and the three-dimensional. In the bustling streets of Philadelphia, he began his training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, a place where his hands first learned the weight and resistance of form. He was a man of many roles, serving as a curator and even shaping the so…