Ellen Day Hale

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Ellen Day Hale, self-portrait 1885, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Ellen Day Hale (born February 11, 1855 in Worcester (Massachusetts) , † February 11, 1940 in Brookline (Massachusetts) ) was an American impressionist painter and etcher / graphic artist .

family

Ellen, the daughter of Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) and Emily Baldwin Perkins Hale (1829-1914), came from a Boston Brahmin family . The father was a pastor with the Unitarians and sat in the US Senate until his death . Ellen had five younger brothers: Charles Alexander (1861–1868), Edward Everett (1863–1932), Philip Leslie (1865–1931), Herbert Dudley (1866–1908) and Robert Beverly (1869–1895). Philip Leslie Hale was one of the impressionists . Herbert Dudley built a number of public buildings in Boston as a partner in the Hale and Rogers company. Ellen's aunt Susan Hale (1833–1910) did watercolors. Harriet Beecher Stowe and theSuffragette Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822-1907) were Ellen's maternal great aunts. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was one of Ellen's cousins.

Educational path

From 1873 on, Ellen took private drawing lessons from William Rimmer in Boston - especially the representation of human anatomy. In 1874, Ellen trained with William Morris Hunt and Helen Mary Knowlton .

From 1878 Ellen Hale studied under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, among other things, nude painting . In 1881 she traveled - together with Helen Knowlton - through Belgium , Holland , Italy , England and France . In Belgium and France, she was accompanied by her distant cousin Margaret Lesley Bush-Brown . Ellen Hale studied drawing in Paris with Emmanuel Frémiet and at the Académie Colarossi . In September 1882 a short study visit at the London Royal Academy of Arts followed . At the academy she exhibited A New England Girl . Ellen Hale soon returned to Paris and studied for three years at the Académie Julian with Tony Robert-Fleury , Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and William Adolphe Bouguereau .

Create

In 1878 Ellen Hale showed the oil painting Wheeling Iron in Boston. Ellen Hale created her self-portrait (see article above right) in Roxbury and in the family's summer home in Matunuck (Eng. Matunuck, Rhode Island ). The painter lived mostly in Boston. So her work - like that of her brother Philip - the Boston School (eng. Boston School (painting)) is assigned. In 1876 she exhibited at the Boston Art Club and in Europe in 1885 at the Salon de Paris . As the successor to James McNeill Whistler , the graphic artist tried a wide variety of etching techniques .

In New England , Ellen Hale encouraged young female painters - in the midst of the male domain of academic painting - to work independently.

Life

Ellen Hale was never married. Side by side with Elizabeth Coffin , Mary Cassatt , Elizabeth Nourse and Cecilia Beaux , she was one of the New Women . In 1883 she found a companion for life in Gabrielle D. Clements (1858–1948) . From 1890, Hale lived in Santa Barbara (California) for two years . In 1904 she moved to live with her father in Washington, DC, and ran the Senator's house during his stays in the metropolis. Hale died in Massachusetts in 1940 on the day of her 85th birthday.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ellen Day Hale  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Working from

  1. ↑ Philip Leslie Hale
  2. ↑ William Rimmer
  3. ↑ Helen Mary Knowlton
  4. ↑ Margaret Lesley Bush-Brown
personal data
SURNAME Hale, Ellen Day
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hale, Miss Ellen Day
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Worcester, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1940
Place of death Brookline (Massachusetts)