Charles Webster Hawthorne Charles Webster Hawthorne, born January 8, 1872, in Lodi, Illinois, stands as a cornerstone of American art during the transformative period between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—a time marked by burgeoning national identity and a fervent embrace of Impressionist ideals. His formative years unfolded inland amidst the rolling prairies of Illinois, yet it was the rugged coastline of Maine—to…