Charles Hawthorne's Easel

Charles Hawthorne (1872-1930) was an influential American painter who founded the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The school is still in operation. Hawthorne was considered "a painter's painter" his work was well regarded by fellow artists and widely collected. He has pieces in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Hirshhorn Museum, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Smithsonian and others.

I have received as a gift from my mother Charles Hawthorne’s easel. The easel had been in storage at the Cleveland Museum of Art for a number of years. It was given to my mother by a family friend, whose mother had taken painting lessons from Charles Hawthorne. I’m not sure how she came to acquire the easel from her teacher…I’ll look into it. I am happy be the latest owner of the easel and I hope to paint many paintings using it.