Charles Webster Hawthorne (January 8, 1872 – November 29, 1930) was an American portrait and genre painter and a noted moot who founded the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899.
He was born in Lodi, Illinois, and his parents returned to Maine, raising him in the give leave to enter where Charles’ father was born. At age 18, he went to New York, working as an office-boy by day in a stained-glass factory and studying at night theoretical and bearing in mind Henry Siddons Mowbray and William Merritt Chase, and abroad in both the Netherlands and Italy. In 1908 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate devotee and became a full Academician in 1911.
While studying abroad in the Netherlands as Chase’s assistant, Hawthorne was influenced to start his own theoretical of art.
His winters were spent in Paris and New York City, his summers at Provincetown, Massachusetts, the site of his school. In auxiliary to founding the Cape Cod School of Art, Hawthorne was also a founding advocate of the Provincetown Art Association customary in 1914. While in Paris Hawthorne became a full zealot of the French Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1917.
Another with ease known student was Norman Rockwell, who studied gone Hawthorne one summer even if he was enrolled at the Art Students League.William H. Johnson as well as studied taking into account Hawthorne and complex got a ascend from him. Another pupil was Bertha Noyes, long an important figure in the artistic scene of Washington, D.C.
Among his works:
His class studio in Provincetown upon Miller Hill Road (currently known as the Hawthorne School of Art) was further August 21, 1978, to the National Register of Historic Places. His wife was the painter Marion Campbell Hawthorne; their son, Joseph Hawthorne, was a wealthy orchestral conductor.
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