Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
56 x 63 in. (board) 64 x 71 x 4 in. (framed)
Mark Description
Signed, u.l.: C. W. Hawthorne
Accession Number
Credit Line
Daniel P. Erwin Fund
Copyright
Collection
American Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette
Provenance
The artist; William Macbeth Galleries; purchased by the John Herron Art Institue, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1916.
Gallery Labels
Hawthorne grew up in Maine among the seafaring people who were to become his major subjects. He was both student and teaching associate of William Merritt Chase and traveled with him to Holland in 1898. There Hawthorne was influenced by the dark tonalities and fluid brushwork of the 17th-century painter Frans Hals. In Provincetown Fishermen, Hawthorne depicted a Portuguese resident of the Cape Cod village where the artist spent most of his career. Careful modeling and drawing show Hawthorne's grounding in traditional academic principles. The picture's stately composition and solid, weighty forms give the subject a dignity and grandeur not often associated with the fish market. Hawthorne's green-toned palette subtly evokes the sea and emphasizes by contrast the bloody business at hand.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Indianapolis Museum of Art
July 2, 1989 - August 20, 1989
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