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Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
A Spring Morning
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

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)
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.).
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2016.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
ca. 1923
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
1872-1930
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.   Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Charles Willson Peale
1791
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Charles Sibley
1976
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2010.
William Merritt Chase
ca. 1914
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Theodore Robinson
1879
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Charles Willson Peale
1787
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2014.
Samuel S. Carr
1887
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2018.
Charles Ephraim Burchfield
1921
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2018.
Charles Bird King
1818-1820
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera - 2008.
Charles George Copeland
ca. 1900