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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Charles Webster Hawthorne

Art Appreciation

American portrait painter, Charles Webster Hawthorne was best known as the founder of the Cape Cod School of Art in Massachusetts, a school that taught en plein air. He was a pupil of American painter William Merritt Chase during the American Impressionism movement. 

Below are just a few of his paintings.


Mother and Child (ca. 1917 - 1920)

The Trousseau (1910)

Nude Before Mirror (1915)


Sources: Wikipedia; http://www.tfaoi.com/newsm1/n1m288.htm; http://www.capecodschoolofart.org/index.html


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