Boston Portrait Painter Sonia Hale: Top Portrait Painting Awards and Recognition
2022, Howard Stern/ A Closer Look with Jon Leiberman
Guest on the show, as authority on the field of commissioned portraits. Interviewed by Jon Leiberman as to my thoughts on commissioning portraits of oneself, as well as interesting anecdotes of the most unusual portrait commissions I’ve been asked to paint.
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2021, Showtime
My landscape oil painting of Martha’s Vineyard was purchased for use as a prop for the Showtime TV series, “Three Women.” My painting is hung in Sloan’s Guest House.
2019, Wellesley Townsman
Featured for institutional portrait commission of Harvard Club of Boston’s President of Karen Van Winkle, first female portrait commissioned at the Harvard Club.
2018, Boston Voyager magazine
Featured in interview. http://bostonvoyager.com/interview/meet-sonia-hale/
2013, Fine Art Connoisseur magazine
Family and Executive Oil Portraits published in prestigious art collecting publication.
2013, Artist Feature spreads in Wellesley-Weston magazine
An upscale glossy magazine.
2012, Best of Worldwide Figurative and Portrait Artists
Published a spread of my portrait paintings: oil & pastel portraits.
2012, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
Everett Raymond Kinstler, From Pulps to Portraits, lecture, dinner and Norman Rockwell Museum Tour
2011, Invited to paint with Putney Painters
Painted as a Guest Artist with Richard Schmid and the Putney Painters in Putney, Vermont. The Putney Painters are an invitational painting group.
2011, Interview for “Wellesley this Week,” which aired on local cable TV
Interviewed about family oil portrait painting process and her professional portrait painting style.
2019, Finalist awards, the Portrait Society of Atlanta
Family portrait paintings, “Brooke” and “Emily,” International portrait competition.
2010, Boston Sunday Globe- award-winning oil portrait painting featured in Sunday Globe Arts Section
National award-winning classic family portrait commission was published in local publication.
2010, Wellesley Townsman- artist feature
2010, Window display at Page-Waterman Gallery, Wellesley, MA
Display of traditional, family/children’s oil portrait paintings in top fine art gallery in Wellesley
2009, Finalist awards, the Portrait Society of Atlanta
2009, International 2009 Richeson 75 Figure/Portrait Competition
Family oil portrait, Children’s oil portrait painting, “Meritorious” — published in the Exhibition book.
2009, Still Life Demo at Wellesley Free Library for the Wellesley Society of Artists
2008, Finalist in the Art Guild of Manhasset, New York, Portrait Competition and Exhibition
National Juried Competition, child oil portrait, children’s portrait painting commission, “Catherine.”
2008, International 2008 Richeson 75’s Still Life & Floral Competition
“Meritorious” award—two still life paintings chosen for awards and published in the Exhibition book.
2004, “Best of Show” at the Wellesley Society of Artist’s Exhibition
Pastel portrait painting of a young man, “Andrew.”
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