Cape Cod School of Art
Hawthorne Class Studio | |
Webster (left) teaches a class, 1910 | |
| Location | Provincetown, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°3′27″N 70°10′58″W / 42.05750°N 70.18278°W |
| Built | 1900 |
| NRHP reference No. | 78000434[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 21, 1978 |
The Cape Cod School of Art, also known as Hawthorne School of Art,[2] was the first outdoor school of figure painting in America; it was started by Charles Webster Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1898.[3]
The Hawthorne Class Studio building off Miller Hill Road was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1] The 1+1⁄2-story studio building is a large gambrel-roofed barn-like building, measuring about 50 by 80 feet (15 m × 24 m), set on concrete pillars and clad in wooden shingles. Its symmetrically arranged front has a center entry with narrow flanking windows, paired windows in bays on either side of the entrance, and single windows at the second level under the gable. The studio was constructed c. 1907 to house the teaching studio of artist Charles Hawthorne. Hawthorne began giving art classes in Provincetown in 1899, and was an acknowledged leader of the artistic community there at the time of his death in 1930.[4]
Notable students
- Daniel Celentano, Depression-era American Scene painter
- Oliver Newberry Chaffee, Modernist painter and printmaker[5]
- Gilbert Franklin, sculptor, educator[6]
- Lucy L'Engle, abstract artist of New York and Provincetown
- Dorothy Lake Gregory, artist and illustrator[7]
- Inez Hogan, author and illustrator[8]
- Henry Hensche, painter and teacher
- Ferdinand Louis Schlemmer, painter and teacher
- Andrew Winter, painter
- Marie Løkke, Norwegian artist [9]
- William Johnson, American artist
See also
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "Hawthorne School of Art for Sale". NPR.org. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
- ^ "History: The Cape Cod School of Art Founded by Charles W. Hawthorne". i am Provincetown. Archived from the original on August 6, 2008. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
- ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Hawthorne Class Studio". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved May 11, 2014.
- ^ Rush, Solvleiga (1991). Oliver Newberry Chaffee, 1881-1944. Taft Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0915577224.
- ^ "Gilbert Franklin". Provincetown Artist Registry. Retrieved March 4, 2022.
- ^ James R. Bakker. "Dorothy Lake Gregory (1893–1970)". Bakker Art and Antiques. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
- ^ Biography and bibliography Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Marie Løkke". Norsk kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
External links
- Several Charles Webster Hawthorne exhibition catalogs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF)