Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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He was an exhibitor at the Columbian Exhibition in Chicago and at a large num- ber of leading art exhibitions throughout the country contributing regularly to the West- ern Society of Artists, of which he is a member. He has received the gold medal of the Art Association of New Orleans. The exhibitions of his oil and water color paint- ings made on his summer travel trips with his wife, have delighted all who have seen them by the faithful characterization of architecture and landscape, interspersed with studies of the ocean. No more enjoyable occasions have been afforded art lovers than the opening views of his work following a summer of sketching. His paintings, pulsating with light and color, are trersured in dozens of homes of culture and taste. His duties in connection with exhibition have been notable, having been a member of the National jury of selection for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis; and Honorary Advisor for the Jamestown Exposition. He is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Art Association of New Orleans. In the annual meetings of the Educational Associations his work is important, be- ing President of the Art Section of the Southern Educational Association, a member since its foundation of the Louisiana Art Teachers ' Association, and a member of the Royal Society for Encouragement of Art, Manufacturing and Commerce. He is also a master member of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts. He is a charter member, and one of the original executive committee, of the Round Table Club, and is Chair- man of its Art Committee. As a student of art, he has traveled with his wife in various parts of Europe, as well as this country and Mexico, notably England, France, Germany, Spain and Italy, where he has prepared himself with observation of the masterpieces of art to lecture on Architecture, Sculpture, Painting and Art-craft, and is widely known as a lecturer in the South. He will, this coming summer, conduct an art study tour in Europe for the Bureau of University Travel. In the field of Art-craft-design he is an acknowledged authority, after twenty- five years of conspicuous achievement, and his work will have wide influence in placing the rigorous discipline of such work, as he conducts it, high in the creditable subjects in college courses. It is work such as he is doing which has overcome the prejudice formerly felt for the loose and vague studies formerly tolerated in girls ' colleges. At various times he has conducted reading circles for the study of the more serious books on the meaning and philosophy of art movements in the world. And finally, it can be said that no one seeking help was ever coldly received, or failed to receive as- sistance when applying to him. (11)

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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)

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