Ellsworth Woodward (1861–1939) was an American artist and art educator. During the late 19th century in

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, Ellsworth and his older brother William Woodward were two of the most influential figures in Southern art. Ellsworth was born 1861 in

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, 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 founding the

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movement, and for his landscape-structure, genre, etcher. Ellsworth Woodward Ursuline and Chartres

Biography

Woodward was born in 1861 in Seekonk, Massachusetts, and died in 1939 in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he spent the majority of his adult life. He studied art at the

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, and later in the studios of Carl von Marr, Samuel Richards, and Richard Fehr. From 1887 to 1931, he was a member of the art department faculty at

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Museums

Woodward's work is in the

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, The

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, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art,

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Museum of Art,

Morris Museum of Art The Morris Museum of Art is an art museum in Augusta, Georgia. It was established in 1985 as a non-profit foundation by William S. Morris III, publisher of The Augusta Chronicle, in memory of his parents, as the first museum dedicated to the coll ...

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, the

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, and the Newcomb Art Gallery.

Painting discovered by Goodwill

In 2009, an employee of

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in Nashville, Tennessee discovered a Woodward painting that was about to be discarded in a trash bin. The painting was auctioned online and sold for $8,000.http://www.wbir.com/news/watercooler/story.aspx?storyid=75954&catid=141 WBIR News Article

Gallery

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Woodward, Ellsworth 1861 births 1939 deaths American landscape artists Artists from Louisiana Tulane University faculty American art educators