Charles Webster Hawthorne Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872 – 1930) was one of America’s most dynamic, penetrating and forthright portrait painters, as well as a creative, inspiring teacher. A painter’s painter, Hawthorne ran a summer school in Provincetown – the Cape Cod School of Art – for over thirty years and made it a leading artists’ colony of plein-air impressionist-inspired talents. He was born in Lodi, Illinois, the son of Joseph Jackson Hawthorne and Cornelia Jane Smith Hawthorne. Having discovered his artistic abilities at an early age, Charles convinced his parents to allow him to…