page_title: Henry Hensche
section_title: School
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Hensche / School
caption_attribution_description: English: portrait demonstration
context_page_description: Henry Hensche was an American painter and teacher.
context_section_description: After the death of Charles Hawthorne, Hensche began to teach on his own in Provincetown.  It is widely believed that Hawthorne "passed the mantle" to Hensche, though this may not be the case.  In fact, several of Hawthorne's students started schools of their own.  (Mrs. Hawthorne wanted $500.00 for the name of the school and Hensche was either unable or unwilling to pay that much.  He changed the name to the Cape School of Art and began teaching).  It is worth noting that Hensche's Cape School was the only one of these schools to survive for any significant length of time (well over fifty years).
  Hensche's work as both a painter and teacher was to advance the ideals of color as the basis for painting; as opposed to tonal painting. He was most interested in creating visual poetry in the tradition of the Claude Monet, while advancing that art movement; the true progression of art in Hensche's eyes. Hensche was at times a vocal dissident of the many art movements of the 20th Century.
caption: Hensche painting in the French Quarter, circa 1975
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