The Crimson Rambler

Name: The Crimson Rambler
Summary: "The Crimson Rambler," purchased after its exhibition in the 1909 Pennsylvania Academy annual, is typical of Hale's impressionist style, with its linear treatment of the figure in a freely brushed setting of light and color. Hale's specialization in visions of idle, decorative women of fragile, "floral" beauty has been interpreted as a visual response to his objection to the women's suffrage movement. It was painted at the home Hale shared with his wife, the painter Lilian Westcott Hale, in the Boston suburb of Dedham; the couple's daughter Nancy has identified the sitter as Rose Zeffler. (Source: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts database)
Artist: Philip Leslie Hale
Date: circa 1908
Topic: Gardens; Portrait painting, American; Impressionism (Art)--United States
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 1/4 x 30 3/16 in. (64.135 x 76.67625 cm.)
place of creation: Dedham
location of: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Philadelphia
Provenance: Joseph E. Temple Fund
Identifier: 1909.12
Source: PAFA Museum Collection. Item: 1909.12
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