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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Books & Publications (42)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
2018
Blackman, Lynne (Editor), The Johnson Collection
245 pages (color)
Arizona's Pioneering Women Artists: Impressions of the Grand Canyon State Directory Listing of 479 Women Before 1945 (Exhibition catalog)
A Museum of Their Own: National Museum of Women in the Arts
2008
Holladay, Wilhelmina Cole
240 pages (color)
The Black and White Exhibitions of the Salmagundi Sketch Club 1878 to 1887: A Guide to Etchings, Engravings, Drawings, Sculpture, Ceramics, Oils and Monotypes
2007
Katlan, Alexander W. (editor)
272 pages
For Sale
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)