Background
Charles Webster Hawthorne was born on January 8, 1872, at Lodi, Illinois, United States, where his parents, Joseph Jackson and Cornelia J. (Smith) Hawthorne, from the state of Maine, were temporarily resident.
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Charles Webster Hawthorne was born on January 8, 1872, at Lodi, Illinois, United States, where his parents, Joseph Jackson and Cornelia J. (Smith) Hawthorne, from the state of Maine, were temporarily resident.
Charles passed his boyhood at Richmond, Maine, then at eighteen he went to New York to study art. Hawthorne studied in the classes of the Art Students’ League of New York under Frank Vincent DuMond and George DeForest Brush, facile painting he learned in William M. Chase’s class.
While studying Charles Hawthorne was obliged to earn his way, and, supposing himself employed as a designer, he took work in a stained-glass factory. His job at first was to sweep the floors and run errands, but he persisted, and presently he was allowed to take part in designing and making windows. The simple and elemental qualities of his later painting undoubtedly reflected in considerable degree in the glass shop. At the Chase School Hawthorne taught and for several years served as its manager. He also assisted Chase at the Rummer school, Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. His canvases of this period were direct, vigorous, brisk of facture. Huring a painting tour of Holland, as he studied old masters, Hawthorne began to add some- lng of his own—serious and subjective—to his acquired cleverness in quickly recognizing and eveIoping artistic motives. He was already outflowing the limitations of the sketch class when a chance led him to settle at Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Hawthorne’s criticisms, delivered to his students at their easels in the streets and on the wharves, were thorough and searching, with insistence on a sound technique as a basis for subsequent selfexpression. Among the Portuguese people of Provincetown Hawthorne found models for paintings in which he sought to recreate the spirit of the early Italian artists. He depicted dark-eyed fisher folk at work and play. His canvases became inevitable prize winners. Although Hawthorne, unlike most of his artistic contemporaries, had never studied in Paris, his work was fully appreciated in Europe.
Hawthorne died while he was undergoing treatment at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He was buried from the Hawthorne winter home, 280 West Fourth Street, New York. Several of his paintings were acquired by American art museums during his life, among them “The Trousseau, ” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; “The Mother, ” Boston Museum of Fine Arts; “Refining Oil, ” Detroit Institute of Arts; “Fisherman’s Daughter, ” Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington; and “Venetian Girl, ” Worcester (Mass. ) Art Museum.
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Hawthorne was a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, a founding member of the Provincetown Art Association, a fellow of the National Academy.
Hawthorne was never of robust physique and suffered from heart disease in his last years.
Quotes from others about the person
“Hawthorne . .. is an admirable painter, charming, vigorous, warm, personal. . .. I am constrained to praise the prodigious technique of the artist who utilizes, with incomparable mastery, all the resources of his art. ” - Emile Henriot
In 1903 Hawthorne was married to Marion Campbell, also an artist.