GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Vigorous applications of paint—often containing varnish mixed into layers of glazing—add intensity to this image of a Cape Cod fisherman and his prize haul. A devoted pupil and studio assistant of William Merritt Chase, Charles Webster Hawthorne founded his own summer art program in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in the early 20th century. He became one of the leading painters in the famed artists’ colony, known particularly for his portraits of working-class individuals.
His heavy application of paint and thick brush strokes evoke the handling of Frans Hals and Diego Velázquez. These European masters were held up as models for emulation by Hawthorne's teacher, William Merritt Chase. In his fishing portraits, Hawthorne adapted this style to evoke the rugged characters of his subjects. This piece illustrates Hawthorne's naturalism as he carefully records precise details of the subjects while using broad, painterly brushwork. The Fish and the Man won a purchase prize in 1948 and became part of the Dallas Art Association's collection.
Adapted from
- William Keyse Rudolph, DMA Label copy (2006.26), September 2006.
- William Keyse Rudolph, DMA Acquisition proposal (2006.26), September 2006.
NOTES
Removed TMS object tag because rule exists.
Adding "draft" tag back to note, Dec 19, 2016, as part of the revised harvest/route procedure. This note will be pulled into GDrive and manually moved to Queta's folders for final review. Update- January 18, 2017- Adding #routed tag so that I can easily keep track of this note in Evernote to confirm that it is eventually pushed into GDrive. As of January 18, 2017 the content is in Brain but not in GDrive so I am unable to finish revisions and mark it complete in Evernote or move the GDoc to Queta's folder.
Confirmed note updated in GDrive. Tagged completed and moved GDoc to Queta folder. (1/24/2017)
Send this information to BMac to see if it is possible to make a note in TMS that sources say he was born in Lodi, Illinois but this town no longer exists. Wikipedia gives three possible places that all used to be called Lodi in IL. A 1961 Time article said CWH was raised in Richmond, ME which is more specific than most sources that usually list his hometown as "Maine."
Ask BMac if "Education location" and "Influential location" could be added to the "geography types" in constituent geographies? For this record, these would be Shinnecock, Paris, NYC, Holland, and Italy.
If this painting was sent to the exhibitions in 1952 and 1961, then these exhibitions overlap with 2006.26. (June 2016- added 2006.26 to these exhibition records in TMS.)
1927: "Exhibition Of Painting and Sculpture by Leading Living American Artists," held by the Dallas Art Association at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, Dallas TX, February 5–25, 1927. (unpaginated, illustrated in b/w, no. 58)- Exhibition ID 10019, UMO 12710713
Object number added to Piction
1947: "Charles W. Hawthorne," Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, NY (Email BMac to change the title of the exhibition form "Untitled" to the above.)
1952: "Charles W. Hawthorne," Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, MA
1958: "Famous Paintings and Famous Painters," Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX, Oct 4- Nov 2, 1958 (unpaginated, illustrated in b/w, cat. no. 12) Exhibition ID 10936, UMO 12711825
Object number added to Piction. Object also added to exhibition in TMS (June 2016),
1961: "Hawthorne Retrospective," Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, MA (catalogue listed on biblio?), June 16- September17, 1961 (send BMac the dates for this exhibition, catalogue available digitally through Met, add published info no. 68, b/w illustration on page 58.)
Published reference-- Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, "A Handbook of American Painting and Sculpture in the Collection of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts" (Dallas, TX: 1951), 3 [b/w illus.].
Object number added to Piction
Bibliographic source- no mention of this work being in this exhibition-- "The Paintings of Charles Hawthorne," [exhibition catalogue], University of Connecticut Museum of Art (Storrs, CT: 1968). (exhibtion, October 12- Nov 17, 1968; Hirschl and Adler Galleries, December 5-31, 1968.
"Master of Provincetown," Time, 77: 27 (30 June 1961), 44.
"The Paintings of Charles Hawthorne," [exhibition catalogue], University of Connecticut Museum of Art (Storrs, CT: 1968).
Parks, John A. "Wisdom from Cape Cod: The Teachings of Charles Webster Hawthorne," American Artist 75: 819 (May 2011), 34-41.
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Produced Provincetown, MA
Process/materials
oil paint
canvas
board
Historical periods
Individuals
Frans Hals
Diego Velasquez
Subject terms
fish
man
moustache
standing
portrait
table
still life
fisherman
vest
artists' colony
brush strokes
naturalism
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PROVENANCE
From 1948: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas Art Association Fund [1]
[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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- According to Rual Askew's article for the Dallas Morning News reporting the acquisiton of The Fish and the Man by the Dallas Museum of Art, "the naturalism practiced by Mr. Hawthorne was so faithful and exact that a Texas physician once borrowed the work to illustrate skin cancer caused by overlong exposure to weather-- an occupational disease not recorded by art-touristic exploitation of seaside subject matter." (Rual Askew, "On Museum's Two Recent Acquisitions," Dallas Morning News (March 21, 1948), section 1, page 5.)
- In his classes, Charles Webster Hawthorne encouraged students to begin a painting by laying down color with a palette knife or large brush to force themselves to think of the whole picture and avoid getting preoccupied with details.
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General Description
Vigorous applications of paint—often containing varnish mixed into layers of glazing—add intensity to this image of a Cape Cod fisherman and his prize haul. A devoted pupil and studio assistant of William Merritt Chase, Charles Webster Hawthorne founded his own summer art program in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in the early 20th century. He became one of the leading painters in the famed artists’ colony, known particularly for his portraits of working-class individuals.
His heavy application of paint and thick brush strokes evoke the handling of Frans Hals and Diego Velázquez. These European masters were held up as models for emulation by Hawthorne's teacher, William Merritt Chase. In his fishing portraits, Hawthorne adapted this style to evoke the rugged characters of his subjects. This piece illustrates Hawthorne's naturalism as he carefully records precise details of the subjects while using broad, painterly brushwork. The Fish and the Man won a purchase prize in 1948 and became part of the Dallas Art Association's collection.
Adapted from
- William Keyse Rudolph, DMA Label copy (2006.26), September 2006.
- William Keyse Rudolph, DMA Acquisition proposal (2006.26), September 2006.
Fun Facts
- According to Rual Askew's article for the Dallas Morning News reporting the acquisiton of The Fish and the Man by the Dallas Museum of Art, "the naturalism practiced by Mr. Hawthorne was so faithful and exact that a Texas physician once borrowed the work to illustrate skin cancer caused by overlong exposure to weather-- an occupational disease not recorded by art-touristic exploitation of seaside subject matter." (Rual Askew, "On Museum's Two Recent Acquisitions," Dallas Morning News (March 21, 1948), section 1, page 5.)
- In his classes, Charles Webster Hawthorne encouraged students to begin a painting by laying down color with a palette knife or large brush to force themselves to think of the whole picture and avoid getting preoccupied with details.
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Notes
Removed TMS object tag because rule exists.
Adding "draft" tag back to note, Dec 19, 2016, as part of the revised harvest/route procedure. This note will be pulled into GDrive and manually moved to Queta's folders for final review. Update- January 18, 2017- Adding #routed tag so that I can easily keep track of this note in Evernote to confirm that it is eventually pushed into GDrive. As of January 18, 2017 the content is in Brain but not in GDrive so I am unable to finish revisions and mark it complete in Evernote or move the GDoc to Queta's folder.
Confirmed note updated in GDrive. Tagged completed and moved GDoc to Queta folder. (1/24/2017)
Send this information to BMac to see if it is possible to make a note in TMS that sources say he was born in Lodi, Illinois but this town no longer exists. Wikipedia gives three possible places that all used to be called Lodi in IL. A 1961 Time article said CWH was raised in Richmond, ME which is more specific than most sources that usually list his hometown as "Maine."
Ask BMac if "Education location" and "Influential location" could be added to the "geography types" in constituent geographies? For this record, these would be Shinnecock, Paris, NYC, Holland, and Italy.
If this painting was sent to the exhibitions in 1952 and 1961, then these exhibitions overlap with 2006.26. (June 2016- added 2006.26 to these exhibition records in TMS.)
1927: "Exhibition Of Painting and Sculpture by Leading Living American Artists," held by the Dallas Art Association at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, Dallas TX, February 5–25, 1927. (unpaginated, illustrated in b/w, no. 58)- Exhibition ID 10019, UMO 12710713
Object number added to Piction
1947: "Charles W. Hawthorne," Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, NY (Email BMac to change the title of the exhibition form "Untitled" to the above.)
1952: "Charles W. Hawthorne," Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, MA
1958: "Famous Paintings and Famous Painters," Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX, Oct 4- Nov 2, 1958 (unpaginated, illustrated in b/w, cat. no. 12) Exhibition ID 10936, UMO 12711825
Object number added to Piction. Object also added to exhibition in TMS (June 2016),
1961: "Hawthorne Retrospective," Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, MA (catalogue listed on biblio?), June 16- September17, 1961 (send BMac the dates for this exhibition, catalogue available digitally through Met, add published info no. 68, b/w illustration on page 58.)
Published reference-- Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, "A Handbook of American Painting and Sculpture in the Collection of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts" (Dallas, TX: 1951), 3 [b/w illus.].
Object number added to Piction
Bibliographic source- no mention of this work being in this exhibition-- "The Paintings of Charles Hawthorne," [exhibition catalogue], University of Connecticut Museum of Art (Storrs, CT: 1968). (exhibtion, October 12- Nov 17, 1968; Hirschl and Adler Galleries, December 5-31, 1968.
"Master of Provincetown," Time, 77: 27 (30 June 1961), 44.
"The Paintings of Charles Hawthorne," [exhibition catalogue], University of Connecticut Museum of Art (Storrs, CT: 1968).
Parks, John A. "Wisdom from Cape Cod: The Teachings of Charles Webster Hawthorne," American Artist 75: 819 (May 2011), 34-41.
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Produced Provincetown, MA
Process/materials
oil paint
canvas
board
Historical periods
Individuals
Frans Hals
Diego Velasquez
Subject terms
fish
man
moustache
standing
portrait
table
still life
fisherman
vest
artists' colony
brush strokes
naturalism
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
From 1948: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas Art Association Fund [1]
[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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