Overview
A member of one of Boston's most distinguished families (son of the acclaimed author, orator, and preacher Reverend Edward Everett Hale and a descendant of Governor William Bradford through his mother Emily Baldwin Perkins), Philip Leslie Hale is celebrated as an important member of the Boston School of figure painters as well as an innovative American Impressionist. A critical trip to Giverny, France in 1888 where he joined a circle of American ex-patriate painters which included Theodore Robinson, Thomas Wendel, Theodore Earl Butler, as well as the legendary Claude Monet, inspired Hale to lighten his palette and to adopt a painting technique more fluid than his previous traditional manner of painting which reflected his academic training under Jules-Joseph Lefèbre, Gistave Boulanger, and Henri Doucet at the École de Beaux Arts.
Memberships
Associate, National Academy of Design
Boston Art Club
Boston Guild of Artists
Copley Society, Boston
Eclectics
International Art Jury, San Francisco Exposition, 1915
National Arts Club, New York
National association of Portrait PAinters
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia Art Club
San Francisco Art Club
St. Botolph Club, Boston, Massachusetts
Exhibitions
Salon de la Champs de Mars, Paris, 1889
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1890-1893-9, 1901-1913, 1919 (Popular Prize)
National Academy of Design, 1894, 1895, 1916-1931, 1916 (prize)
Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901
St. Louis Exposition, 1904 (Bronze Medal)
Buenos Aires Exposition, 1910 (Gold Medal)
International Exhibition of Modern Art (Armory Show), 1913
Art Institute of Chicago, 1914 (Harris Silver Medal)
Pan-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 (Honorable Mention, Hors Concours Jury of Awards)
Philadelphia Water Color Club, 1916 (Lea Prize)
National Academy of Design, 1916 (Proctor Prize)
Solo Exhibitions
Durand-Ruel, New York, 1899
St. Botolph Club, Boston, 1911, 1921
Guild of Boston Artists, 1916, 1919, 1925
Castano Gallery, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Memorial Exhibition, Boston, November 1931
Vose Galleries of Boston, 1966
Finer Things, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970-71
Museums and Public Collections
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Metropolitan Museum of art, New York
Montevideo Museum, Uruguay
National Academy of Design, New York
National Arts Club, New York
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Art Club, Pennsylvania
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Illinois