The Willow Whistle
1888
Medium
etching and drypoint
Dimensions
image: 37.9 × 20.3 cm (14 15/16 × 8 in.) plate: 39.1 × 21.5 cm (15 3/8 × 8 7/16 in.) sheet: 50.5 × 31.8 cm (19 7/8 × 12 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.2309
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Ellen Day Hale · 1855–1940
**Ellen Day Hale** (1855–1940) was an American Impressionist painter and printmaker whose career exemplified the determination of women artists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, into a prominent Boston Brahmin family, she was the daughter of author and orator Edward Everett Hale. Her extended family included notable figures such as great-aunt H...