Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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CiSi itwRtiMdlUftSA) Prof. Woodward LLSWORTH WOODWARD, Director of the School of Art, Profes- sor of Drawing and Painting, Lecturer on History of Art, in the New- comb College for Women, is one of the prominent figures in the art edu- cation of the present day in this country, and his name is becoming known in international art centres. None have surpassed him in establishing a vital union between art instruction and practical handicraft or in illustrating the intimate rela- tion between art of a high order and the ordinary concerns of life. He was born in the town of Seekonk, Bristol County, Massachusetts, within five miles of Providence, Rhode Island. An early desire for an art career was confirmed by a visit to the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, in 1876, when he was fifteen years old. His early schooling was followed by several years as pupil and teacher in the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. At the age of twenty-four he was elected Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting in Tulane University of Louisiana, with his brother, William, who had been elected Professor of the same subject. At that time great interest was being shown in art education, and in addition to college students about 200 high school boys were in- structed in drawing five hours a week, alternating with manual training under Profes- sor John M. Ordway. A free drawing school with sometimes as many as 800 stu- dents was conducted on Saturdays and evenings in the same room, and did much to make the University favorably known to the people of New Orleans. For the first year after the organization of Newcomb College by President Dixon, in October, 1887, the art instruction of this College was conducted by the Art Faculty of the University, but in the year following the subject of this sketch was elected Profes- sor, and given full charge of the work. The successful development of college art and art production until the present, when the reputation of his work stands unrivalled, bears witness of his power and foresight in his chosen vocation. At first in small gallery rooms of a dwelling on Lee Circle, then in a dark base- ment of the present College building, afterward on the upper floor of the present Lab- oratory Buildings, and now in the beautiful and well-arranged Art and Pottery Build- ings, he has firmly guided the work with ceaseless energy and vigilance for a quarter of a century; until now, when he confronts the task of deciding the plan of the build- ings for the enlarged work to be done on the new site adjoining the Tulane Campus. Soon after being placed in charge of the Art Department of Newcomb College, he took a year ' s leave of absence in Europe, which was spent mainly at Munich, study- ing in the studio of Richard Fehr and Carl Marr. (10)