Charles W. Thwaites

Charles Winstanley Thwaites (March 21, 1904 – November 21, 2002) was an American painter. He painted murals for the Section of Painting and Sculpture in Wisconsin in the 1930s, and he later became an oil and watercolor painter in New Mexico.

Life Thwaites was born on March 21, 1904, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin and the Layton School of Art. He painted murals in post offices like the NRHP-listed Chilton Post Office and Plymouth Post Office.

Thwaites had a wife, Antoinette. He died on November 21, 2002, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he was buried in the Rosario Cemetery.