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.
Vose Galleriers, Boston, Massachusetts
Collection of Mr. Franklin P. Folts, by 1975
Eldred’s, East Dennis, MA, 2005
Acquired by Massachusetts Collector from the above
Bonham’s New York, 2014
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Feb 9-Mar 30, 1919, Popular Prize, 1919
Guild of Boston Artists, Oct. 15, 1919, #63
St. Botolph Club, Boston, Feb. 2014, 1921
#13 Vose Galleries, Boston: Paintings and Drawings by Philip Leslie Hale, Nov. 1-Dec. 2,1966
New York, The New York Cultural Center, and elsewhere, Three Centuries of the American Nude, May 9-July 13, 1975, p. 8, no. 53.
#37 Vose Galleries, Boston: Paintings and Drawings by Philip Leslie Hale, April 5-June, 1988