Grace Hall Hemingway

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The Hemingways 1905 (from left): Marcelline, Sunny, Clarence, Grace, Ursula, and Ernest

Grace Hall Hemingway (born June 15, 1872 in Chicago , Illinois , † June 28, 1951 in Memphis , Tennessee ) was an American opera singer and painter .

Life

Grace Ernestine Hall was the daughter of the wealthy wholesaler Ernest Miller Hall and his wife Caroline, b. Hancock. After attending various schools in her native Chicago, she was a student at Oak Park High School from 1886 to 1891 . From 1895 she received singing lessons for the Grand opéra from Luiza Cappiani in New York . In 1896 she made her debut as a contralto soloist with the Apollo Club at Madison Square Garden , later she sang for the Metropolitan Opera, among others . In 1896 she married the doctor Clarence Hemingway . The couple had six children together, one of their sons was Ernest Hemingway . Grace Hall Hemingway began painting at the age of 52. She attended the Art Institute of Chicago and various other art schools. From 1925 she painted over 600 pictures, mostly landscapes. She was a member of the Oak Park Art League, of which she was director for six years.

The strained relationship between mother and son finally went so far that Ernest did not show up for her funeral in Oak Park in 1951.

literature

  • Hemingway, Grace Hall In: John William Leonard (Ed.): Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15. The American Commonwealth Company, New York 1914, p. 380 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hemingway, Grace Hall In: Durward Howes (ed.): American Women: the Official Who's Who among the Women of the Nation, 1935. American Publications, Los Angeles 1939.
  2. ^ Rodenberg, Hans-Peter: Ernest Hemingway, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 2011, p. 32
personal data
SURNAME Hemingway, Grace Hall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1951
Place of death Memphis , Tennessee