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A leading American Impressionist working at the turn of the twentieth century, Lilian Westcott Hale is associated with the genteel Boston School. Her subjects are typical of that group—upper-class domestic settings populated by women and children. Best known for her vaporous charcoal and graphite drawings, Hale brought a similar touch to her paintings, working in subtly modulated strokes with contrasting highlights. "Celia’s Arbor," which retains its original Stanford White-designed frame, has been described as capturing the "elusive mystery of suffused sunlight." It was exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, held in San Francisco in 1915.

Credit: Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, ...

c. 1910
Oil on canvas
56.5 x 47.6cm
24.59.2
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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