Background
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 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.
Educated Rhode Island School of Design, and studios of Carl Marr, Richards and Fehr, Munich, Germany. Doctor of Laws, Tulane, 1933.
Ellsworth Woodward is best known for founding the Newcomb Pottery movement, and for his landscape-structure, genre, etcher. Woodward was born in 1861 in Seekonk, Master of Arts and died in 1939 in New Orleans, Los Angeles, 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 C. Marr, Samuel Richards, and Richar.
Woodward"s work is in the Charleston Museum, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Morris Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Newcomb Art Gallery.
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.
From 1887 to 1931, he was a member of the art department faculty at Tulane University.
Married Mary Bell Johnson, September 24, 1885.