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 lands...