A Spring Morning
Artist
Charles Webster Hawthorne
(American, 1872 - 1930)
CultureAmerican
Date1915
MediumOil on board
DimensionsOverall: 60 1/8 x 48 in. (152.7 x 121.9 cm)
Overall, Frame: 72 1/4 x 60 x 4 in. (183.5 x 152.4 x 10.2 cm)
Overall, Frame: 72 1/4 x 60 x 4 in. (183.5 x 152.4 x 10.2 cm)
InscribedUnsigned
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.659
Not on view
DescriptionOil on board painting of a woman sewing. A window is behind her; she sits on a chair with her needlework.ProvenanceCanadian National Exhibition, 1915; Macbeth Galleries; Babocks Galleries, New York, 1958; Hawthorne Retrospective, Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, Mass., 1961; Purchased by Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. from Babock Galleries, New York, Ny.; Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, 1971. Exhibition History"Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., March 1 - July 4, 1976. (Exhib. cat. p. 175). Published ReferencesChrysler Museum. "Hawthorne Retrospective, 1961," THE CHRYSLER ART MUSEUM BULLETIN Special Edition Issue. Vol. 1, No. 1. Provincetown, Mass.: The Chrysler Art Museum. 06/1961: p. 34, no. 23. Dennis R. Anderson, _Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum_, exh. cat., Norfolk, Va., 1975, 175. Simone Schwarz-Bart, editor. HOMMAGE A LA FEMME NOIRE. Vol. 5. Paris: Editions Consulaires. 1989: p. 181, color ill. Richard J. Powell. HOMECOMING: THE ART AND LIFE OF WILLIAM H. JOHNSON. Washington, D.C.: The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. 1991: pp. 14, 16; fig. 9, p. 16 (b/w ill.).
