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Virginia Swinburne Hale (1887-1981).

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Virginia Swinburne Hale (1887-1981).
A sketchbook and four Carmel landscape drawings. Artist: Virginia Swinburne Hale (1887-1981). Title/Description: New York and Carmel sketchbook; 23 pages of drawings and studies, including nude forms (inscribed: Mr. Blashfield's Studio, N.Y.), several portraits, and landscape scenes ("Carmel", "Beaver Brook", "Murphy's Sand Works"). Together with four loose Carmel landscapes. Signature: Unsigned. Date Created: 1930-1935. Medium/Ground: Charcoal/Conte crayon, ink, pencil on on paper and tracing paper. Size: 15in x 10 3/4in (sketchbook); 4in x 7in (loose drawings). Condition: Toning, spotting/soiling, dark dampstaining at bottom margin (extending through most pages and carboard back), creases. 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 a part of the Carmel artists group and a friend to Elsie Whitaker Martinez and Harriet Dean. Subjects in the sketchbook include her sister-in-law Dorothy Hale and brother Gardner Hale (together, interior), several unidentified portraits, and Virginia Hale's niece Jocelyn de Paul. From the Family of Xavier Martinez (1869-1943), Elsie Whitaker Martinez (1890-1984), and Micaela Martinez DuCasse (1913-1989).