Charles Webster Hawthorne Charles Webster Hawthorne, born January 8, 1872, in Lodi, Illinois, stands as a pivotal figure in American art during the transformative years following the turn of the century—a period marked by burgeoning national identity and a fervent embrace of Impressionist ideals. Though his formative years unfolded inland amidst the Midwestern prairies, it was the rugged coastline of Maine that would indelibly shape h…