Portrait of Beatrice Forbes-Robertson-Hale painted by Josephine Halvorson. Josephine Halvorson holds a BFA from The Cooper Union (2003) and an MFA from Columbia University (2007). She is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship to Austria (2003-4), a Tiffany Foundation grant (2009), a NYFA award (2010), and yearlong residencies in Paris at the Fondation des Etats-Unis, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, and the French Academy in Rome. Her work is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co in New York and Peter Freeman in Paris. She is Professor of Visual Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University.