Cape Cod School of Art

The Cape Cod School of Art, also known as Hawthorne School of Art,^[1] was the first outdoor school of figure painting in America; it was started by Charles Webster Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1898.^[2]

Webster (left) teaches a class, 1910

The Hawthorne Class Studio building off Miller Hill Road is on the List of Nationally Registered Historic Places.

Notable students

• Daniel Celentano, Depression-era American Scene painter
• Oliver Newberry Chaffee, Modernist painter and printmaker^[3]
• Gilbert Franklin, sculptor, educator^[4]
• Lucy L'Engle, abstract artist of New York and Provincetown
• Dorothy Lake Gregory, artist and illustrator^[5]
• Inez Hogan, author and illustrator^[6]
• Henry Hensche, painter and teacher
• Ferdinand Louis Schlemmer, painter and teacher
• Andrew Winter, painter
• Marie Løkke, Norwegian artist ^[7]
• William Johnson, American artist