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Artist or Maker: Philip Leslie Hale (1865-1931)

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Provenance: The artist.
Mrs. Philip L. Hale, wife of the above.
Ralph McLellan, gift from the above, 1962.
Estate of Philip Hale, gift from the above, 1973.
Acquired by the present owner, 1980.

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Exhibited: New York, Association of American Painters and Sculptors, International Exhibition of Modern Art (The Armory Show), 1913, no. 940 (as Art Students ).
Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Armory Show: 50th Anniversary Exhibition , February 17-March 31, 1963.

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Notes: Exhibited at the seminal Armory Show of 1913, the present painting depicts Philip Leslie Hale's fellow students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. From left to right the sitters are: Alfred Truman, Robert Logan, Ralph McLellan and Jerry Dawnes.

It was at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he studied with Edmund C. Tarbell, and under the private tuteledge of William Merritt Chase that Philip Hale would adopt Impressionism, which became his defining style.