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1859 Seekonk, Massachusetts - 1939 New Orleans, Louisiana. Known for: Town-landscape, portrait, genre painting, art education.
A painter, teacher, sketch artist, etcher, and architect, William Woodward is known primarily for his impressionist paintings of the French Quarter in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.... Read full biography
A painter, teacher, sketch artist, etcher, and architect, William Woodward is known primarily for his impressionist paintings of the French Quarter in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. He was active in New Orleans from 1885 to 1923, and Biloxi, Mississippi, from 1924 to 1939. He also... Read full biography
A painter, teacher, sketch artist, etcher, and architect, William Woodward is known primarily for his impressionist paintings of the French Quarter in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. He was active in New Orleans from 1885 to 1923, and Biloxi, Mississippi, from 1924 to 1939. He also painted landscapes including the Yellowstone Falls of the Grand Canyon when he traveled to Canada, Hawaii, and throughout the American West. Woodward was born in Seekonk, Massachusetts and studied at... Read full biography
A painter, teacher, sketch artist, etcher, and architect, William Woodward is known primarily for his impressionist paintings of the French Quarter in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. He was active in New Orleans from 1885 to 1923, and Biloxi, Mississippi, from 1924 to 1939. He also painted landscapes including the Yellowstone Falls of the Grand Canyon when he traveled to Canada, Hawaii, and throughout the American West. Woodward was born in Seekonk, Massachusetts and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston, and the Academie Julian with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. He and his brother, Ellsworth, were highly influential figures in New Orleans in the 19th century.... Read full biography
A painter, teacher, sketch artist, etcher, and architect, William Woodward is known primarily for his impressionist paintings of the French Quarter in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. He was active in New Orleans from 1885 to 1923, and Biloxi, Mississippi, from 1924 to 1939. He also painted landscapes including the Yellowstone Falls of the Grand Canyon when he traveled to Canada, Hawaii, and throughout the American West. Woodward was born in Seekonk, Massachusetts and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston, and the Academie Julian with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. He and his brother, Ellsworth, were highly influential figures in New Orleans in the 19th century. William's interest in art was stirred by the Philadelphia Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. He moved to New Orlean... Read full biography
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A painter, teacher, sketch artist, etcher, and architect, William Woodward is known primarily for his impressionist paintings of the French Quarter in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. He was active in New Orleans from 1885 to 1923, and Biloxi, Mississippi, from 1924 to 1939. He also painted landscapes including the Yellowstone Falls of the Grand Canyon when he traveled to Canada, Hawaii, and throughout the American West.
Woodward was born in Seekonk, Massachusetts and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston, and the Academie Julian with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre.
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