Drop by the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 460 Commercial St., for “Hawthorne, Hofmann, and Hopper,” an exhibit of works by the three masters. It opens Friday, June 25th and […]
Charles Webster Hawthorne
Napi Collection at PAAM, Continued
The third installment of the Napi and Helen Van Dereck Collection is on view at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 460 Commercial St., from Friday, April 16th to July […]
THAT WAS THEN
Provincetown’s Forgotten Symphony Orchestra
How Joseph Hawthorne tried to build a Cape Tip Tanglewood
Did you know that Provincetown used to have a symphony? The Provincetown Symphony Orchestra, sometimes called the Provincetown Symphony Society, was founded in 1955 by the conductor Joseph Hawthorne. The […]
ELEMENTS OF STYLE
Rite of Passage: Hawthorne’s ‘His First Voyage’
The painting honors the spirit of the 73rd Blessing of the Fleet
At four by five feet, His First Voyage, by Charles Webster Hawthorne, is an imposing painting. Its figures are roughly life-size. The subject is, seemingly, just a domestic scene. A […]
