Lot 5
  • 5

Charles Webster Hawthorne 1872 - 1930

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Little Sylvia
  • signed CW Hawthorne (lower left)
  • oil on panel
  • 40 by 40 inches
  • (101.6 by 101.6 cm)
  • Painted circa 1912.

Provenance

Macbeth Gallery, New York
Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 1912 (acquired from the above)
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1912

Exhibited

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1926
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress Fine Arts Exhibition, June-November 1933, no. 458
Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art, A Survey of American Painting Exhibition, January-February 1934, no. 17, p. 13
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress Fine Arts Exhibition, June-November 1934, no. 588, p. 90
Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo Civic Theatre, 1945
Provincetown, Massachusetts, Hawthorne Memorial Gallery of the Provincetown, Massachusetts Art Association, Charles W. Hawthorne, July-September 1947
New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Charles W. Hawthorne: An American Figure Painter, 1947, no. 17, p. 67
Provincetown, Massachusetts, Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, Hawthorne Retrospective, June-September 1961, no. 87

Literature

Friends of American Art Year Book, Chicago, Illinois, 1912, opp. 30
Friends of American Art Year Book, Chicago, Illinois, 1913, opp. 36
Friends of American Art Year Book, Chicago, Illinois, 1914, opp. 83
Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 1, 1915, no. 4, vol. 9, p. 49, illustrated on the cover

Condition

This painting is in excellent condition. UV examination reveals a normal fluorescence of the artist's pigments and varnish with no prior restoration visible.
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