Cape Cod School of Art

Webster (left) teaches a class, 1910

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]

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

  1. ^ "Hawthorne School of Art for Sale". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  2. ^ "History: The Cape Cod School of Art Founded by Charles W. Hawthorne". i am Provincetown. Archived from the original on 2008-08-06. Retrieved 2021-06-01.