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Virginia Swinburne Hale (1887-1981).

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 500.00 USD
Virginia Swinburne Hale (1887-1981).
Artist: Virginia Swinburne Hale (1887-1981). Title/Description: "Head" (Portrait of Elsie Whitaker Martinez). Signature: Unsigned; identified on Chicago Society of Artist's Jury paper label on stretcher. Medium/Ground: Oil on canvas. Date Created: c. 1920s-1930s. Size: 18in x 14in; 24 1/2in x 20 1/2in (frame). Condition good. Virginia S. Hale was the daughter of Classics scholar William Gardner Hale (1849-1928). Her siblings were attorney/activist Swinburne Hale, artist Gardner Hale, and sister Margaret Hale Foster. Virginia studied art and resided in New York City, and was later a part of the Carmel artists group and a friend to Elsie Whitaker Martinez and Harriet Dean. From the Family of Xavier Martinez (1869-1943), Elsie Whitaker Martinez (1890-1984), and Micaela Martinez DuCasse (1913-1989).