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Seated Female Nude

1887-1920

Philip Leslie Hale

Associated Names

Philip Leslie Hale

Artist, American, 1865 - 1931

The image features a drawing of a woman sitting, depicted in a three-quarter view from the head to the mid-thighs. She has a serene expression, with her right arm resting on a surface and her left hand on her thigh. Her head is slightly tilted to the right, looking downwards. The drawing shows the woman's facial features, hair styled back, and an unclothed body through light sketching on neutral-toned paper. The background is a plain, textured surface in a light brown hue.

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Artwork overview

Medium

graphite with white chalk on brown wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)
Dimensions

image (irregular): 24.77 × 18.42 cm (9 3/4 × 7 1/4 in.)
sheet: 31.75 × 25.4 cm (12 1/2 × 10 in.)
Accession Number

2015.19.750

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Castano Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1951; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

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Exhibition History

1980

The Human Form: Contemporary American Figure Drawing and the Academic Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980

Bibliography

1983

Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 128, no. 863.

Wikidata ID

Q64619482

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