Lilian Westcott Hale (1881 in Hartford, Connecticut – 1963) was an American impressionist painter. Her father was Edward Gardner Westcott. She studied at the Hartford Art School, with Elizabeth Stevens. In 1899, she studied with William Merritt Chase, at Shinnecock, Long Island. She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with Edmund Tarbell. She married artist Philip Leslie Hale, on June 11, 1902. His father was Edward Everett Hale.[2] They lived in Dedham, Massachusetts. Her sister in law was Ellen Day Hale. In 1927, she won an Altman Prize, from the National Academy of Design. Her work is in the Museum of Fine Arts, the National Academy of Design, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection and the North Carolina Museum of Art. Her papers are held with the Hale Family Papers at Smith College. |