![]() ![]() Edwin married Frances Rollin Hale from New Hampshire, known as Fanny, in 1870. His subjects were derived from his frequent travels throughout the East, especially Morocco, Egypt, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Perisa, and India. Weeks became one of the most celebrated of American Orientalist painters. Weeks was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1849, the son of affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton. The sitters in these companion portraits are the artist Edwin Lord Weeks and his wife, Francis Rollins Hale Weeks. ![]() Hale’s paintings can be seen in the Tennessee State Museum. Her work has been exhibited throughout Tennessee, and in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Nebraska, and Colorado, and has been awarded numerous prizes. She was a member of the Tennessee Art Association and the East Tennessee Art Association. Hale was head of the Art Department at Tennessee Wesleyan College, Athens, Tennessee from 1929 to 1966. She also studied with modernist Southern landscape artist Will Henry Stevens, with painter Lois Bartlett Tracy, and with portrait, genre and figure painter Frank Stanley Herring in his Burnsville Painting Classes in Burnsville, North Carolina. She studied at Sayre School, Lexington, Kentucky the Cooper Union and the Art Students League, New York City the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Portrait and figure painter Martha Hale was born in Kentucky in 1892. ![]()
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