Birth place:  Hartford, CT

Death place: St. Paul, MN (on a visit)

Addresses: Boston, Dedham, and St. Anne, MA; Charlottesville, VA

Profession: Painter, drawing specialist

Studied: Shinnecock Art Sch. of Wm. M. Chase; BMFA Sch. with Tarbell, Philip Hale; Hartford Art Sch.; E. Stevens.

Exhibited: PAFA, frequently from 1903-27 (gold med., 1923); Corcoran Gal., 1907-41 (13 times); Buenos Aires Expo., 1910 (med.); Pan.-Pac. Expo., San Fran., 1915 (gold med.); Phila. AC, 1919 (gold med.); AIC, 1919 (gold med.); NAD, 1924 (prize), 1927 (prize); Concord AA, 1925 (prize); North Shore AA, 1941 (prize); Contemp. Artists New England, 1945 (prize).

Member: ANA, 1927; NA, 1931; CAFA; Gld. Boston Artists; Grand Central Art Gal.

Work: BMFA; PAFA; PMG; CGA; Phila. AC; MMA; Concord AA; Denver AM; NC Mus. of Art

Comments: Impressionist who specialized in portraits and figurative works; excelled at pastel. Her figurative works often included a single female figure in an interior setting. She married Philip Hale (see entry) in 1901 and painted at Fenway Studios, 1906-09, until the birth of their daughter, when she established a studio at her home.

Sources: WW59; Nancy Hale (daughter of Lilian and Philip Hale), The Life in the Studio (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1957); Erica Hirshler, Lillian Westcott Hale (1880-1963): A Woman Painter of the Boston School (Ph.D. diss., Boston University, 1992); Vose Galleries, Mary Bradish Titcomb and Her Contemporaries, 42; Tufts, American Women Artists, cat. no. 53; Art in Conn.: Between World Wars; Falk, Exh. Record Series. 

Biography courtesy of Who Was Who in American Art, the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.