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Ellen Day Hale
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts on February 11, 1855, Ellen Day Hale was the daughter of famous orator Edward Everett Hale and the sister of artist Philip Hale whom she helped teach. She studied in Paris at Académie Julian and with William Morris Hunt. Hale and her friend and companion, Philadelphia artist Gabrielle Clements, whom she had met in 1883 and who taught Hale to etch, had traveled through France when Hale studied at the Academie Julian in the mid-1880s. After the turn of the century, they had further travels in the Middle East, Algiers and Europe, while wintering in Charleston, South Carolina, where they taught etching to Southern women artists Alice Ravenel Huger Smith and Elizabeth O'Neill Verner. Following her California trip she established a summer residence in Rockport, Massachusetts. Unmarried, she died in Brookline, Massachusetts on February 10, 1940. Her work may be found in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Philadelphia Museum of Art, as well as the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

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South Carolina Pineland