Ellsworth Woodward (1861–1939) was an American artist and art educator. During the late 19th century in
New Orleans, Ellsworth and his older brother
William Woodward were two of the most influential figures in Southern art. Ellsworth was born 1861 in
Seekonk, Massachusetts, 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
Newcomb Pottery movement, and for his landscape-structure, genre, etcher.[1]
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
Rhode Island School of Design, and later in the studios of
Carl von Marr, Samuel Richards, and Richard Fehr.[1] From 1887 to 1931, he was a member of the art department faculty at
Tulane University.[2]
In 2009, an employee of
Goodwill Industries 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.[3]