American Impressionist
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1932 Summer Olympics
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.
Biography
Hale was born in Boston, the son of prominent minister
Edward Everett Hale
Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 – June 10, 1909) was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as "The Man Without a Country", published in ''Atlantic Monthly'', in support of the Union dur ...
, the brother of artist
Ellen Day Hale
Ellen Day Hale (February 11, 1855February 11, 1940) was an American Impressionism, Impressionist painter and printmaker from Boston. She studied art in Paris and during her adult life lived in Paris, London and Boston. She exhibited at the Paris S ...
, and was related to
Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was an American Patriot, soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured b ...
and
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and became best known for her novel ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1852), which depicts the harsh ...
. He studied at the School of the
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
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under
Edmund Tarbell
Edmund Charles Tarbell (April 26, 1862August 1, 1938) was an American Impressionist painter. A member of the Ten American Painters, his work hangs in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonia ...
, and with
Kenyon Cox
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Art Students League of New York
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Although artists may stu ...
. Beginning in 1887, he studied in Paris for five years, and during the summers painted at
, where he was influenced by the palette and brushwork of
Claude Monet
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. In the 1890s he painted his most experimental works, which evidenced an interest in
Neo-impressionism
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and
Symbolism
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Arts
* Symbolism (arts), a 19th-century movement rejecting Realism
** Symbolist movement in Romania, symbolist literature and visual arts in Romania during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
** Russian sy ...
.
Hale returned to Boston in 1893. Formerly engaged to Ethel Reed, 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
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
and the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Mary Bradish Titcomb. He wrote art criticism and published ''
Jan Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer ( , , see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. During his lifetime, he was a moderately succe ...
of Delft'' in 1913, the first monograph on the artist published in the United States.
File:Hale Garden party.jpg, Garden party
File:Hale Woman in garden.jpg, Woman in garden
File:Philip Leslie Hale Portrait.jpg, Portrait
File:Philip-Leslie-Hale-Landscape-1890.jpg, Landscape
See also
*
Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating ...
National Academy of Design
The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fin ...