Lilian Westcott Hale

Lilian Westcott Hale (December 7, 1880 in Bridgeport, Connecticut – November 3, 1963 in Saint Paul, Minnesota) was an American Impressionist painter.

According to the 1880 indigenous Bridgeport archival archives at the Connecticut State Library, the 1900 Federal Census, and her grave site, she was born upon December 7, 1880, as Lillie Coleman Westcott to Edward Gardiner Westcott and Harriet Clarke. Her dad was the President of the Bridgeport Sharp's Rifle C. in the late 1870s and was its treasurer in 1880. He would sophisticated become the treasurer of the Bridgeport Lee Arms Co.

Hale studied at the Hartford Art School bearing in mind Elizabeth Stevens, and in 1899 considering William Merritt Chase at the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art on Long Island. Her art education continued at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with Edmund Tarbell. On June 11, 1902, she married artist Philip Leslie Hale, whose father was Edward Everett Hale, and whose sister was Ellen Day Hale. They lived in Dedham, Massachusetts and had a daughter, novelist Nancy Hale in 1908.

Her put it on consists of charcoals as skillfully as paintings, and her subjects included still lifes and landscapes, but she is perhaps best known for her portraiture. In his book, The Boston Painters, R. H. Ives Gammell says "She had a flair for picking the revealing gesture which expressed her sitter and subsequently offsetting its dominant lines when aptly chosen surroundings appropriately as to create a tapestry of shapes and colors which enchant the eye. Her portraits fascination us as decorative wall hangings in the similar degree that they fascinate as revelations of character. This twofold feat is especially noteworthy in her portrayals of children." And in a review in the Boston Globe of an exhibit that included some of her works, Christine Temin stated, "Her drawings are veiled in a soft haze, the product of a technique based on thousands of wispy vertical strokes. While extra figures in this play a part trumpet their importance, gazing antagonistically at the viewer, the women in Hale's drawings are caught in intimate, contemplative moments. And while further interiors in the operate are stuffed in the same way as Oriental porcelain and fine antiques, Hale's untitled 1930 room featuring a multi-paned window casting geometric shadows upon the floor, has a Shaker simplicity. " Her put it on is united with the Boston School of American Impressionism.

In 1927, Hale won an Altman Prize from the National Academy of Design.

Her perform is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Academy of Design, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and The Cleveland Museum of Art. Her acquit yourself was also allowance of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Her papers are held when the Hale Family Papers at Smith College.