Philip Leslie Hale (American, 1865-1931)

Philip Leslie Hale (1865–1931) was an

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artist, writer and teacher. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the

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Biography

Hale was born in Boston, the son of prominent minister Edward Everett Hale, the brother of artist

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, and was related to

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and

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. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston under

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, and with Kenyon Cox and

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at the

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. Beginning in 1887, he studied in Paris for five years, and during the summers painted at Giverny, where he was influenced by the palette and brushwork of Claude Monet. In the 1890s he painted his most experimental works, which evidenced an interest in Neo-impressionism and Symbolism. Hale returned to Boston in 1893. Formerly engaged to

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, he instead married fellow artist

Lilian Westcott Hale Lilian Westcott Hale (December 7, 1880 in Bridgeport, Connecticut – November 3, 1963 in Saint Paul, Minnesota) was an American Impressionist painter. Biography According to the 1880 original Bridgeport archival records at the Connecticu ...

in 1902, and they rented adjoining studios in Boston. Hale taught at the Museum School in Boston, as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; among his Boston pupils was

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. He wrote art criticism and published '' Jan Vermeer of Delft'' in 1913, the first monograph on the artist published in the United States.

Gallery

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References

*Dearinger, David Bernard
''Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925'', Hudson Hills, 2004.
*Philip Leslie Hale papers
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
In 1917 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member.

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American Impressionism and garden movement
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