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Artist Ellen Day Hale (1855-1940)
Year 1888
Medium Oil on canvas 16"x22" (canvas size)
Price $850

Ellen Day Hale (February 11, 1855 – February 11, 1940)[1] was an American Impressionist painter and printmaker from Boston. She studied art in Paris and during her adult life lived in Paris, London and Boston. She exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy of Arts. Hale wrote the book History of Art: A Study of the Lives of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and Albrecht Dürer and mentored the next generation of New England female artists, paving the way for widespread acceptance of female artists.

Hale's family background provided her with a network of strong female role models. Her great-aunt was Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.[3] Educator Catharine Beecher and suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker were also great-aunts.[4] One of Hale's first cousins was writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, best known for her short story "The Yellow Wallpaper".

In 1873, Hale began her formal art education and training in Boston with painter William Rimmer. Although the changing cultural and social landscape of Boston provided many new opportunities for women, female students were still segregated from their male counterparts.[2] Therefore, Hale took private lessons from Rimmer, and his instruction focused primarily on drawing and the analysis of anatomy. A year later, Hale enrolled in William Morris Hunt's school for painting with approximately forty other women artists.

Seeking additional training, Hale traveled to Philadelphia in 1878 to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). Hale studied at PAFA for two years, where she first painted from the live female nude.[5] Hale attended the Academy while it was directed by Thomas Eakins, who, like William Rimmer, emphasized the study of human anatomy as the basis for figure painting.[2] After studying in Philadelphia, Hale traveled throughout Europe with Knowlton in 1881.

Artist Emma Fleming Love Buckley (1880-1957)
Year 1930s
Medium Oil on board 18"x24" (board size)
Price $325

The artistic circumstances of Emma Fleming Love Buckley’s life are unknown. She was born on 23 May 1880, in Mississippi; her father was David Frederick Love and her mother, Mary Caledonia Fleming. She married Henry Gilliam Buckley on 20 December 1905, in Mississippi. She was living in Attala, Mississippi, in 1880 and 1900 according to census records. She died on 12 December 1957, in Water Valley, Yalobusha, Mississippi at the age of 77. This well-executed oil on board depicts a common theme in southern still life paintings—flowering Magnolias. It comes in what appears to be the original frame.

Artist Mildred “Millie” Lyle Dearing (1906-1995 )
Year 1951
Medium Watercolor on paper 14"x23" (image size)
Price $495

Not much is known of Mildred “Millie” Lyle Dearing’s personal life, but her contribution to the arts in Athens is well documented through her involvement with the Athens Art Association, primarily from the late 1950s onward and her work with the Georgia Museum of Art. Dearing was born in North Carolina in 1906 as the daughter of A.L. and Mary Dearing. After the death of her father in 1950, she moved to Athens. Upon her move to Athens, Dearing became the secretary to Alfred Heber Holbrook, the founder of the Georgia Museum of Art on the University of Georgia campus. Newspaper articles describing subsequent renovations show Dearing and Holbrook hanging images together. Dearing also served as secretary of Bill Paul, the next director of the Georgia Museum of Art and a professor at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. Dearing worked on her own art too. According to the collection, Dearing showed her oil paintings at Athens Art Association art exhibitions from the late 1950s onward. She was an apprentice to Laura Blackshear, the founder of the Athens Art Association. Dearing is also listed among the Johnson Collection’s online list of Southern women artists; some of her pieces are held by that museum. Dearing died in 1995 and is buried in Oconee Hill Cemetery. Her work has been posthumously displayed at Athens Art Association retrospective events, including “A Century of Art” at the Lyndon House in 2019.

Work has overall even, consistent toning.