Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, retaining exhibition label to verso, presented in its original giltwood frame.

Stretcher size 26 x 22 1/4 in.; Frame dimensions 29 1/4 x 25 1/4 in.

From the Estate of the late Margaret Fisher Terry, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Exhibited:
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, New York.

Marion Campbell Hawthorne was born in Joliet, Illinois. She began her formal art studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While there, she met her future husband, Charles Webster Hawthorne, when they were both enrolled in a class taught by William Merritt Chase. In 1896, both she and Hawthorne signed up for Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills on Long Island.

Following her marriage to Hawthorne in 1903, Marion worked as his assistant at the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts. While her time was divided between household duties and work responsibilities, she was able to continue painting. She belonged to the Pen and Brush Club and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.

Marion’s paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions including a 1918 solo exhibition of watercolors at the John Herron Art Institute, a 1945 joint exhibition at the Pen and Brush Club, and most recently, a retrospective of her work entitled Marion Campbell Hawthorne: Paintings and Watercolors at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in July 2019.

Grime to the surface, light areas of craquelure, otherwise good estate condition.