Background
Hale, Walter was born on August 4, 1869 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Robert W. and Virginia (Timberlake) Hale.
Hale, Walter was born on August 4, 1869 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Robert W. and Virginia (Timberlake) Hale.
Student Shattuck (Military) School, Faribault, Minnesota, 1884-1885. Minneapolis School of Fine Arts, 1888. Studied later in New York and Paris.
Actor until 1913, keeping up art work in meantime. Created parts in original productions of Augustus Thomas’s “Oliver Goldsmith,” “Arizona,” “As a Manitoba Thinks,” et cetera Played with Fanny Davenport, Sol Smith Russell, Julia Marlowe, William H. Crane, et cetera
Exhibited etchings, lithographs or illustrations, Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, London, 1894 (elected associate), New York Etching Club, 1894-1896, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904, Salon of Societe des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1911, San Francisco Exposition, 1915, Musee des Invalides, Paris (war lithographs), 1916, Painters-Gravers of America, New York, 1917.
Served with 1st Regiment Minnesota National Guard, 1885-1889.
Married Louise Closser Hale, August 17, 1899.