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One of my favorite Painter/Teacher/Motivators has always been Charles Hawthorne...
I am current studying and re-reading his teaching points....
I have his little book On Painting and really treasure it..

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Charles Webster Hawthorne (January 8, 1872 – November 29, 1930) was an American portrait and genre painter and a noted teacher who founded the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899.

He studied painting under several notable artists] at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. Among his teachers were Frank Vincent DuMond and George de Forest Brush. But Hawthorne declared that the most dominant influence in his career was William Merritt Chase, with whom he worked as both a pupil and assistant. Both men were naturally talented teachers and figurative painters who were drawn to rich color and the lusciousness of oil paint as a medium. Chase passed on a Munich tradition of tone values and tone painting, and Hawthorne learned all he could

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While studying abroad in Holland as Chase's assistant, Hawthorne was influenced to start his own school of art.

His winters were spent in Paris and New York City, his summers at Provincetown, Massachusetts, the site of his school. In addition to founding the Cape Cod School of Art, Hawthorne was also a founding member of the Provincetown Art Association established in 1914. While in Paris Hawthorne became a full member of the French Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1917.

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The Cape Cod School of Art was the first outdoor summer school for figure painting and grew into one of the nation's leading art schools. Under thirty years of Hawthorne's guidance, the school attracted some of the most talented art instructors and students in the country including John Noble, Richard Miller, and Max Bohm. At his school, Hawthorne gave weekly criticisms and instructive talks, guiding his pupils and setting up ideals but never imposing his own technique or methods.

Another well known student was Norman Rockwell, who studied with Hawthorne one summer while he was enrolled at the Art Students League.

His class studio in Provincetown on Miller Hill Road (currently known as the Hawthorne School of Art) was added August 21, 1978 to the National Register of Historic Places

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Charles Webster Hawthorne’s reputation as a “painter’s painter” sums up his place in American art as both a major early twentieth century painter and teacher of painting.
...................... Hawthorne once noted that “The world is waiting for men with vision—it is not interested in pictures.“

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The bold originality of his work has challenged art historians’ efforts to classify influences on his art ranging from the European Impressionists, the subsequent Modernists, or Abstractionists, and even earlier Dutch masters like Franz Hals, whose influence Hawthorne himself acknowledged.

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How modern or innovative was Hawthorne during his productive years, a period spanning 1894 until his death in 1930? Some art critics had declared him passé by the time he exhibited at the Armory Show, the landmark exhibition of modern art held in New York in 1913. Others see his work as a bridge linking developments in Western art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as his worked progressed from a more Impressionistic to Abstract painting style

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Yet perhaps one of the most important influences on Hawthorne’s paintings is their vernacular quality. As the art critic Hans Hoffman has noted, Hawthorne’s “art [was] rooted deeply in American life,”
......making it “robust and provocative” rather than being slavishly committed to “taste and design.”

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His paintings of Cape Cod people and places particularly suggest his affinities with major American painters who succeeded him as, for example, .....................................Edward Hopper, Ben Shahn and Andrew Wyeth.
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Like the work of these diverse painters, Hawthorne‘s work embodied an original vision rooted in place and honed by an individualistic style that simultaneously captured both the essence of place settings and a more complex interior landscape. Certainly the inwardly directed gaze of his portrait subjects.

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one of the signatures of Hawthorne’s portrait painting, is reminiscent of
... the still,
.....lonely atmosphere
...................of paintings by Hopper and Wyeth.

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Hawthorne was born in Lodi, Illinois in 1872 and grew up in Richmond, Maine, a small New England town on the Kennebec River. In 1894 he moved to New York City and worked in a stained glass factory while studying painting at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League.
The most dominant influence during this period was that of William Merritt Chase,
the mentor with whom Hawthorne shared a passion for teaching,
................for lush colors,
...............and for plein air figure painting

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Hawthorne worked as both pupil and assistant to Chase. In 1898 he moved to Holland as Chase’s assistant and lived there a year.
During this period he fell under the influence of the Dutch master Frans Hals,
......................whose paintings Hawthorne admire for their contrasting tonal qualities.

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In 1899, on his return to the United States, Hawthorne opened the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts and guided the school’s art program for 30 years, until his death in 1930

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During weekly talks and Saturday critiques of his students’ work,
Hawthorne guided them but did not impose his own painting techniques or methods.

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At the school students were drawn back to the fundamentals,the basics of painting and seeing

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Above all he urged his students not to make “pictures”
but rather to create unfinished studies that were open-ended inquiries.

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As he repeatedly insisted,
“A great painter is always a student,
................... always seeing more
.................until he has to send the canvas for exhibition.“

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The school became a large art colony during the spring and summer months it operated. Among Hawthorne’s talented students were the artists Ben Shahn, John Noble, Richard Miller, Max Bohm and Norman Rockwell

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Although he spent the fall and winter months in New York City, Hawthorne was very much involved in Provincetown’s community life as a founding member of the Provincetown Art Association.
He was a music enthusiast who played the cornet and cello and was a member at various times of chamber music ensembles.
His son Joseph saw Hawthorne’s love of music as influencing his father’s approach to painting.
As Hawthorne himself put it,
........................... “Beauty in art is the delicious notes of color one against the other

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Widely recognized as a major American artist during his life time, Hawthorne’s paintings today hang in such major museums as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He received awards from the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, as well as a string of prizes, including: the Hallgarten, the Thomas P. Clark, the Isadore Gold Medal (twice), the Benjamin Altman, Andrew Carnegie and Proctor prizes. He was a full member of both the National Academy of Design, exhibiting annually there, and the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts

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As expressed in his critiques of his students’ work,
Hawthorne held that color values were the fundament principle of painting:
...................“Have the courage to set down the colors” he urged his students, and then the form “takes care of itself if color is right.”

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He stressed that “ Composition is color fusing with form.”

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the painting could surpass the limits of calculation and construction.
As he told his students:
“You are here to represent by color,
by separating of color,
by exacting matching of color,
what you see, and thereby learn to see

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On his return from Holland, Hawthorne disciplined his painting style by painting for a time solely with a palette knife
in order to relegate detail to a larger vision;
details were to be suggested rather than elaborated,
giving the viewer more opportunities to explore what the painting suggested
but left undeclared.
..................... “My plea is for something big and fine and honest,” he said.

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Swing a bigger brush – toss out the riggers.. you don't know what you're missing. (Charles Hawthorne)

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There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be.
Put things down while you feel that joy. (Charles Hawthorne)

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The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors –
be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula. (Charles Hawthorne)

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Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop. (Charles Hawthorne)

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To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world. (Charles Hawthorne)

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It is so much better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one. (Charles Hawthorne)

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We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets. (Charles Hawthorne)

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Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while. (Charles Hawthorne)

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The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures. (Charles Hawthorne)

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Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind. (Charles Hawthorne

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Chase used to say: "When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing." (Charles Hawthorne

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Casey at the Bat




The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day;
The score stood four to two with but one inning more to play.
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same, A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game.

A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest
Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast;
They thought if only Casey could but get a wack at that --
We'd put up even money now with Casey at the bat.

But Flynn preceded Casey, as did Jimmy Blake,
And the former was a lulu and the latter was a cake;
So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat,
For there seemed but little chance of Casey's getting to the bat.

But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all,
And Blake, the much despised, tore the cover off the ball;
And when the dust had lifted, and the men saw what had occurred,
There was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third.

Then from 5,000 throats and more there rose a lusty yell;
It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;
It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled upon the flat,
For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.

There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place;
There was pride in Casey's bearing and a smile on Casey's face.
And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat,
No stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas Casey at the bat.

Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt;
Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt.
Then while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip,
Defiance gleamed in Casey's eye, a sneer curled Casey's lip.

And now the leather-covered sphere came hurtling through the air,
And Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there.
Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped --
"That ain't my style," said Casey. "Strike one," the umpire said.

From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar,
Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore.
"Kill him! Kill the umpire!" shouted someone on the stand;
And it's likely they'd have killed him had not Casey raised his hand.

With a smile of Christian charity great Casey's visage shone;
He stilled the rising tumult; he bade the game go on;
He signaled to the pitcher, and once more the spheroid flew;
But Casey still ignored it, and the umpire said, "Strike two."

"Fraud!" cried the maddened thousands, and the echo answered fraud;
But one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed,
They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain,
And they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again.

The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;
He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville -- mighty Casey has struck out.

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Hawthorne held
that color values were the fundament principle of painting:
...................“Have the courage to set down the colors” he urged his students, and then the form “takes care of itself if color is right.”

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Hawthorne says
The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures

Happy to be a new member of the group. Here is a recent image of a farm and sunflower field just after sunrise.

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Architecture is where you find it. It is to do with the designing of buildings and structures, but in its broader meaning it also includes the design of our complete built environment. It can be found in outback areas, on mountain peaks, almost anywhere on the land, even on the sea in the form of oil rigs and it surrounds us in our places of abode. We tend to take it for granted and complain when its appeareance doesn't suit our taste. Architecture provides us with shelter, places to work, gives us points of reference in our urban wilderness, but most important of all, it provides a fundamental basis for the way we live. Architecture is ephemeral, can be a thing of great beauty, and its elements can be pillaged and used as building blocks by successive generations. Past civilizations are often known through their achievements in architecture and certain works have become cultural, political and artistic icons. Presumably a family once lived in this little house at Fort Steele, British Columbia. It now stands derelict and isolated, yet it seems to exist as a monument to the toil of hard working rural people anywhere. The image was captured during summer 2008 towards the end of a photographic journey through the Canadian Rockies.

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