Henry Hensche outside the barn studio on Pearl Street, Provincetown, Massachusetts
The Cape School of Art has a unique purpose: to educate the artist in the perception and use of color and light in representational painting. Through workshops, classes, and lectures, we work to inform a new generation of artists, patrons, Provincetown residents, and visitors about the teaching and enduring influence of American Impressionist Henry Hensche and his mentor Charles W. Hawthorne, founder of Provincetown’s historic art colony and the original Cape Cod School of Art.
Charles Hawthorne demonstrates for students on a Provincetown wharf, 1910.
More than one hundred years later, former students of Henry Hensche conduct classes outdoors in Provincetown.
Below: Hilda Neily, Glenna Hartwell, and Arthur Egeli
