Painter · American
Attested lodger
Philip Leslie Hale
Among the first Americans to make Giverny a laboratory of Impressionism, from 1888.
- Dates1865 — 1931
- NationalityAmerican
- DisciplinePainter
- Place of birthBoston, Massachusetts, United States
Biography
Philip Leslie Hale was born in 1865 and died at Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1931, following surgery. The National Gallery of Art holds drawings of his from the Corcoran Collection.
Giverny
The Archives of American Art write that in the summer of 1888 he made his first trip to Giverny, where he was among those who “were among the first Americans to experiment with Impressionism”, and that he spent the summers of 1891 to 1893 continuing that work there.
Relation with the Hôtel Baudy
Three stays: 1 June to 1 October 1888, then 5 to 7 October of the same year, and finally 6 to 30 August 1892. That last one is not alone — on the next line of the register are entered “M. et Mme. Hale père”, that is the minister and writer Edward Everett Hale, his father, on exactly the same dates.
Principal works
Key points
- 1865Born — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Giverny1888, then summers 1891 — 1893
- 1931Died
Sources
- 01Archives of American Art, Philip Leslie Hale papers, biographical note
- 02National Gallery of Art, Philip Leslie Hale
- 03Terra Foundation for American Art, “Impressionist Giverny: American Painters in France, 1885–1915”, exhibition texts
- 04Hôtel Baudy guest register, “Registre pour inscrire les voyageurs”, Philadelphia Museum of Art; transcribed by Carol Lowrey in William H. Gerdts, Monet’s Giverny, Abbeville Press, 1993, pp. 222-227.
From the register
Under the same roof
The painters whose stay overlaps this one. The register establishes that they lodged in the house on the same days, and nothing more.
- John Leslie Breck 123 days from June 1, 1888 to October 1, 1888 · 2 shared stays
- Dawson Dawson-Watson 107 days from June 1, 1888 to September 15, 1888 · 2 shared stays
- Theodore Earl Butler 103 days from June 1, 1888 to September 11, 1888
- Theodore Wendel 99 days from June 1, 1888 to September 7, 1888
- Thomas Buford Meteyard 25 days from August 6, 1892 to August 30, 1892