Background
Woodward, William was born on May 1, 1859 in Seekonk, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Erastus Marion and Maria (Carpenter) Woodward.
Woodward, William was born on May 1, 1859 in Seekonk, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Erastus Marion and Maria (Carpenter) Woodward.
Graduate Rhode Island School of Design, 1884, Massachusetts Normal Art School, 1886. Studied Julian Academy, Paris, under Boulanger and Lefevre.
Professor drawing and painting, Tulane University, 1884-1921 (emeritus). Founder School of Architecture, Tulane. Represented in collections of Delgado Museum of Art and Newcomb Art Gallery (60 color studies of colonial New Orleans), New Orleans.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi.
Member 1st board directors American Federation of Arts. Member committee 3d International Congress for Advancement of Drawing and Art Teaching, London, 1908 (vice president for United States).
Married Louise Amelia Giesen, June 1, 1886. Children: Alma Louise (Mistress William Bainbridge Logan), Eleanor (Mistress George Moseley), William Giesen, Carl Ellsworth.