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Girl in a Cap

Close up of Girl in a Cap

Print portrait in black ink against an ivory background of a young woman with light skintone in three quarter view wearing a tall bonnet-like cap and a hint of shawl modestly draped around her neck.
Print portrait in black ink against an ivory background of a young woman with light skintone in three quarter view wearing a tall bonnet-like cap and a hint of shawl modestly draped around her neck.
Ellen Day Hale, Girl in a Cap, ca. 1910; Etching on paper, 11 1/2 x 9 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay

Artwork Details

  • Artist

    Ellen Day Hale

  • Title

    Girl in a Cap

  • Date

    ca. 1910

  • Medium

    Etching on paper

  • Dimensions

    11 1/2 x 9 in.

  • Donor Credit

    Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay

  • On Display

    No

The Artist, Ellen Day Hale

Ellen Day Hale was among the wave of American artists, both men and women, who traveled to Europe for training in the last quarter of the 19th century.
A painting of a light skinned, older woman who is seated on a black chair. She wears a large, black hat, and a white turtleneck that is barely visible beneath a black coat and black feathered shawl. The background, rendered in visible, thin painstrokes, is grey and brown.