Ellen Day Hale

Ellen Day Hale

Self-Portrait, 1885
Born 1855 (1855)
Worcester, Massachusetts
Died 1940 (aged 84–85)
Brookline, Massachusetts
Nationality American
Field Painting, printmaking
Training Académie Julian
Works Un Hiver Americain, An Old Retainer, A New England Girl, June
Influenced by William Rimmer, William Morris Hunt, Helen M. Knowlton

Ellen Day Hale (11 February 1855 Worcester, Massachusetts - 11 February 1940 Brookline, Massachusetts) was an American painter and printmaker.

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Biography

She was educated under the supervision of her aunt, Susan Hale. She received her first instruction in art from William Rimmer, and afterward studied under Boston painter William Morris Hunt and Helen M. Knowlton while helping raise her seven brothers and sisters. Later she studied in at the Académie Julian in Paris.[1][2]

In 1883, she met Gabrielle DeVeaux Clements who became a life-long companion and taught her etching. Together they pioneered color etching in the United States in the late 1880's. Hale was very active in exhibiting her work, but only achieved marginal recognition of her art.[3]

She exhibited Un Hiver Americain and An Old Retainer in the Paris Salon, and A New England Girl in the Royal Academy, London.[1]

Her 1893 portrait, June, which depicts a young woman sewing, wearing a bun and a checked dress, is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.[4]

Family

Hale's family was involved in the arts. Her father, Edward Everett Hale, was an author. Her great aunt Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Writings

Gallery of works by Ellen Day Hale

References

  1. ^ a b  "Hale, John". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1892. 
  2. ^ Works of Art in the United States Capitol Building, Charles Edward Fairman, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1913
  3. ^ Phyllis Peet (1999). "Hale, Ellen Day". American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press. 
  4. ^ Heller, Nancy G. ... [et al.] (2000). Women artists: works from the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Washington, DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts in association with Rizzoli International Publications Inc. pp. 88-89. ISBN 0847822907.