Charles Webster Hawthorne

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Charles Webster Hawthorne (January 8, 1872 – November 29, 1930) was an American portrait and genre painter and a noted teacher who founded the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899.

He was born in Maine, started as an office-boy in a stained-glass factory in New York, studied at night school and with Henry Siddons Mowbray and William Merritt Chase, and abroad in both Holland and Italy.

He became a member of the National Academy in 1911 and was awarded the Thomas B. Clarke prize (of the academy). His winters were spent in Paris and New York City, his summers at Provincetown, Massachusetts, the site of his school.

Among his works are:

• "The Trousseau", Metropolitan Museum of Art
• "Mother and Child", Syracuse, New York Museum
• "Net Mender", Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
• "Venetian Girl", Worcester Art Museum
• "The Family", Buffalo Fine Arts Academy

[edit] External link

• "A Painter's Painter: Charles Webster Hawthorne; The Influence of Provincetown and Henry Hensche on Sammy Britt, Gerald DeLoach, Richard Kelso, and George T. Thurmond"

This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.