Saint Louis Cathedral Woodward, William Architectural illustration Churches Cathedrals Plein-air Born in Seekonk, Massachusetts, William Woodward studied art at the Normal Art School in Boston, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Academie Julien in Paris. In 1884 Tulane College and High School (today Tulane University) hired him to teach free-drawing classes. With his brother Ellsworth he helped organize the art department at Newcomb College, a new school for women, in 1887. Through his paintings, Woodward recorded historic buildings of the French Quarter and the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast. Working in the impressionist style favored by many early twentieth-century American artists, he captured these effects by painting en plein air, or out-of-doors. Davis Publications, Worchester, Massachusetts 1904 CE Drawing Digital image Tiff; JPEG2000 Raffaelli oil crayon New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana 20th century; American New Orleans, Louisiana Davis Publications, Worchester, Massachusetts
Saint Louis Cathedral
Woodward, William
Architectural illustration
Churches
Cathedrals
Plein-air
Born in Seekonk, Massachusetts, William Woodward studied art at the Normal Art School in Boston, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Academie Julien in Paris. In 1884 Tulane College and High School (today Tulane University) hired him to teach free-drawing classes. With his brother Ellsworth he helped organize the art department at Newcomb College, a new school for women, in 1887. Through his paintings, Woodward recorded historic buildings of the French Quarter and the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast. Working in the impressionist style favored by many early twentieth-century American artists, he captured these effects by painting en plein air, or out-of-doors.
Davis Publications, Worchester, Massachusetts
1904 CE
Drawing
Digital image
Tiff; JPEG2000
Raffaelli oil crayon
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
20th century; American
New Orleans, Louisiana
Davis Publications, Worchester, Massachusetts