Selectmen of Provincetown by Charles Webster Hawthorne
Art Institute of Chicago

Selectmen of Provincetown

Charles Webster Hawthorne · c. 1924

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist, New York and Provincetown, MA; sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1924.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art</em>, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 18, as <em>The Three Selectmen of Provincetown</em>.
  • Chicago, Garfield Park Art Galleries, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/5706/garfield-park-art-galleries-exhibition-of-greek-sculptures-and-american-paintings"><em>Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago</em></a>, Nov. 5, 1935–Mar. 3, 1936, cat. 11.
  • Champaign, University of Illinois, Exhibition of Provincetown Painters, Jan. 29–Feb. 22, 1939, cat. 26, as The Three Selectmen of Provincetown.
  • Champaign, University of Illinois, Architecture Building Gallery, <em>American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, Dec. 3–29, 1939, no cat.
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 75th Anniversary Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by 75 Artists Associated with the Art Students Leagure of New York, 1951.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
  • Provincetown, Chrysler Museum, Retrospective Exhibition of Art by Charles W. Hawthorne, June 1–Aug. 31, 1961.
  • Storrs, University of Connecticut, The Paintings of Charles Hawthorne, Oct. 12–Nov. 17, 1968; New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Dec. 5–31, 1968.

Literature

Published references

  • Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>Catalogue of an Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art</em>, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 18, as <em>The Three Selectmen of Provincetown</em>.
  • Robert J. Dunham, <em>Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, exh. cat. (Chicago Park District, 1935), n.p., cat. 11.

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