Charles Hawthorne from the Permanent Collection
Hawthorne鈥檚 father made a living as a sea captain and ice farmer. After graduating from high school in 1890, Hawthorne went to New York to become an artist. Three years later, he had earned enough money as a dockworker and later at a design studio to study for the next three years at the Art Students League in New York. It is interesting to note that Hawthorne completely bypassed artistic study in Boston, where the School of Drawing and Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts was attracting students, including E. Ambrose Webster, who enrolled there in 1892, from around the country to study with Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell. In what would seem an odd series of coincidences, both Webster and Hawthorne, born within three years of each other, would wind up opening art schools in Provincetown within one year of each other and living on Miller Hill within one hundred yards of each other.
Hawthorne鈥檚 father made a living as a sea captain and ice farmer. After graduating from high school in 1890, Hawthorne went to New York to become an artist. Three years later, he had earned enough money as a dockworker and later at a design studio to study for the next three years at the Art Students League in New York. It is interesting to note that Hawthorne completely bypassed artistic study in Boston, where the School of Drawing and Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts was attracting students, including E. Ambrose Webster, who enrolled there in 1892, from around the country to study with Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell. In what would seem an odd series of coincidences, both Webster and Hawthorne, born within three years of each other, would wind up opening art schools in Provincetown within one year of each other and living on Miller Hill within one hundred yards of each other.
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