Painter, etcher, and writer Ellen Day Hale, was one of the few women professional artists of her era, late 19th and early 20th centuries, to 'rise to the top' at a time when men ruled the domain of... Read full biography
Painter, etcher, and writer Ellen Day Hale, was one of the few women professional artists of her era, late 19th and early 20th centuries, to 'rise to the top' at a time when men ruled the domain of fine art. Heavily credentialed in painting and printmaking by study at respected institutions, "she... Read full biography
Painter, etcher, and writer Ellen Day Hale, was one of the few women professional artists of her era, late 19th and early 20th centuries, to 'rise to the top' at a time when men ruled the domain of fine art. Heavily credentialed in painting and printmaking by study at respected institutions, "she also played a major role as a mentor for a younger generation of aspiring women artists, cautioning them 'against being too influenced by any one of [their instructors] . a fault common among artists... Read full biography
Painter, etcher, and writer Ellen Day Hale, was one of the few women professional artists of her era, late 19th and early 20th centuries, to 'rise to the top' at a time when men ruled the domain of fine art. Heavily credentialed in painting and printmaking by study at respected institutions, "she also played a major role as a mentor for a younger generation of aspiring women artists, cautioning them 'against being too influenced by any one of [their instructors] . a fault common among artists of our sex." (Hirshler, 75). She worked initially in a broadly-brushed, Barbizon* influenced style that evolved to Impressionism*, later becoming more carefully modeled under the influence of photography. She was a painter of landscapes, portraits and... Read full biography
Painter, etcher, and writer Ellen Day Hale, was one of the few women professional artists of her era, late 19th and early 20th centuries, to 'rise to the top' at a time when men ruled the domain of fine art. Heavily credentialed in painting and printmaking by study at respected institutions, "she also played a major role as a mentor for a younger generation of aspiring women artists, cautioning them 'against being too influenced by any one of [their instructors] . a fault common among artists of our sex." (Hirshler, 75). She worked initially in a broadly-brushed, Barbizon* influenced style that evolved to Impressionism*, later becoming more carefully modeled under the influence of photography. She was a painter of landscapes, portraits and genre paintings of figures in nature. Hale was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1855. She studied in Bosto... Read full biography
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