Ellsworth Woodward. During the late 19th Century in New Orleans, Ellsworth and his older brother William Woodward

William Woodward (artist)

William Woodward was a U.S. artist and educator, best known for his impressionist paintings of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of the United States....

 were two of the most influential figures in Southern art. Ellsworth was born 1861 in Seekonk, Massachusetts

Seekonk, Massachusetts

Seekonk is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States, on the Massachusetts border. It was incorporated in 1812 from the western half of Rehoboth. The population was 13,722 at the 2010 census. Until 1862, the town of Seekonk also included what is now the City of East Providence, Rhode...

, but the two brothers made New Orleans their home (around 1876) and devoted themselves to promoting Southern culture and art as artists, teachers and administrators. Ellsworth Woodward is best known for his landscape-structure, genre, etcher.

Summary

Methods

• Craftsperson
• Easel Painting
• Illustration/Illustrator
• Mural Painting/Fresco
• Plein Air Painting
• Potter/Ceramist
• Printmaking/Graphics
• Sculpture

Mediums

• Charcoal
• China Painting
• Etching
• Ink Drawing (Pen and Ink)
• Oil Paint
• Pottery
• Watercolor

Style

• Impressionism Before 1940

Subjects

• Architecture/Buildings
• Civil War Subjects
• Coastal View
• Figure/Figurative
• Floral Landscape/Wildflowers
• Genre-Human Activity
• Hand-Crafted Object
• Human Head
• Landscape
• Nude Figure
• Portrait

Associations

• American Federation of Arts
• New Orleans Art Association
• Southern States Art League
• WPA/Federal Arts Project

Biography

Woodward was born in 1861 in Seekonk, MA and died in 1939 in New Orleans, LA, where he spent the majority of his adult life. He studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design, and later in the studios of C. Marr, Samuel Richards, and Richar

Museums

Woodward's work is in the Charleston Museum

Charleston Museum

The Charleston Museum was the first museum built in America and was founded in 1773. It is located in the Downtown Historic District of Charleston, South Carolina....

, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, most often referred to as Louisiana State University, or LSU, is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name...

 Museum of Art, Morris Museum of Art

Morris Museum of Art

The Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia was established in 1985 as a non-profit foundation by William S. Morris III, in memory of his parents, as the first museum dedicated to the collection and exhibition of art and artists of the American South....

, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Newcomb Art Gallery

Tulane University Law School

Tulane University Law School is the law school of Tulane University. It is located on Tulane's Uptown campus in New Orleans, Louisiana. Established in 1847, it is the 12th oldest law school in the United States....

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2009 Discovery of Painting Wins Goodwill $8,000

"A rare painting that was found in a Tennessee Goodwill warehouse sold for thousands of dollars online.

A Goodwill employee in Nashville saw the painting's gold frame buried in a bin that was supposed to be trash.

After doing some research, employees discovered the painting was an original 1907 watercolor by New Orleans artist Ellsworth Woodward, with a letter from the artist attached to the back.

Goodwill employees don't know who the donor is, but they're ecstatic about the find.

"This is just amazing, the fact that we have this one of a kind piece here in our Goodwill," said Suzanne Kay-Pittman, a Goodwill employee.

The painting started an online bidding war and was sold to a buyer in Boston for $8,000.

A Goodwill spokesperson says the money will go to funding the non-profit organization."