English: June by Ellen Day Hale. Here the sitter concentrates on her sewing, completely ignoring the dazzling landscape beyond the window. Hale’s extremely loose brushwork is visible in the thickly impastoed areas behind the sitter’s head. Yet we can clearly perceive the woman’s thimble and the quick movements of her needle glinting in the sunlight. - See more at: http://nmwa.org/works/june-0#sthash.sF6vnSgi.dpuf