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Voluble and intense, Congdon is the son of a rich Providence, R.I., steelmaker. Brought up as an Episcopalian, he went to St. Mark's School and Yale; with his parents' reluctant approval and support, he studied sculpture in Boston under George Demetrious, painting in Philadelphia and Provincetown, Mass. At the start of World War II, Congdon, a lifelong bachelor, gave up painting to buy his own ambulance, trailed the British Eighth Army through battles in Egypt, Libya, Italy and Germany. "The war was the savior of my life," he recalls. "It gave me a feeling of being needed...
...Provincetown, Mass., Playhouse: One of Shaw's oldest, Mrs. Warren's Profession...
...Provincetown, Mass. Playhouse on the Wharf: Three Words in No Time, a play by Belgium's sulphurously philosophical Playwright Michel de Ghelderode...
Color First. Hawthorne grew up in Richmond, Me., and at 18 went to Manhattan, where he got a job working in a stained-glass factory and studied art at night. He finally discovered Provincetown when he was 26, and there found all the subject matter he needed. Like the Dutch masters he admired, he painted ordinary people doing ordinary things. "There is something noble about being able to paint a dishpan that anyone would be glad to hang in a drawing room." he said...
...house first and color after," he said. Last week his most famous student, Edwin Dickinson, recalled: "More than anyone else, Hawthorne appreciated the fact that plane relationships are better expressed through comparative values of color than through drawing." Adds Abstractionist Hans Hofmann, who became a part of the Provincetown colony in 1934: "As a painter, Hawthorne cast aside every doctrine-so that he might surpass the limitations of calculation and construction...