Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872-1930)

Elijah in the Desert

Details

Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872-1930)
Elijah in the Desert
oil on canvas
84 x 42 in. (213.4 x 106.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1905.

Literature

The University of Connecticut, The Paintings of Charles Hawthorne, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1968, pl. 10.
W.H. Gerdts, The Great American Nude: A History of Art, New York, 1974, p. 163, fig. 8-7.

Exhibited

Provincetown, Massachusetts, Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, Hawthorne Retrospective, June 16 - September 17, 1961.
Storrs, Connecticut, The University of Connecticut Museum of Art, The Paintings of Charles Hawthorne, October 12 - November 17, 1968.
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, December 5 - 31, 1968.

Lot Essay

Elijah embodies Hawthorne's grasp and talent of unidealized, realistic figure painting. His portrait of Elijah is heralded as "what is perhaps the finest nude portrait of an elderly person in the history of American art." (W.H. Gerdts, The Great American Nude: A History of Art, New York, 1974, p. 162.)

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