Anna Woodward

Anna Woodward (1868–1935) was an American painter who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1868. She studied painting at the Académie Julian in Paris when Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, and William-Adolphe Bouguereau, and also bearing in mind George Hitchcock in Holland. By 1918, she moved to Hawaii from Paris in imitation of a studio near Waikiki. She was influenced by the impressionist movement, creating landscape portraits. During the 1920s and 1930s she produced illustrations and paintings for Paradise of the Pacific. Woodward died in Honolulu in 1935.

The University of Iowa Museum of Art is in the middle of the public collections that hold works by Anna Woodward.

Anna Woodward was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 26, 1868. She was born to Anna M. W. Steiner and Marcus A. Woodward; a rich and well-known lawyer in Pittsburgh. She spent her childhood in Pennsylvania, earning a bachelor's degree. Soon after, Woodward went to Paris afterward the accompaniment of her mother and enrolled at the Académie Julian, with a focus in oil painting. She studied painting below the information of Jules-Joseph LeFebvre, Tony Robert-Fleury, and William Bourguereau. During the summer, she attended a small private bookish led by George Hitchcock, a former student of Jules-Joseph LeFebvre and Gustave Boulanger. Woodward, along like many further influenced students, joined George Hitchcock during the summers in Holland at the Edmongse School (1890-1915), a private studio spearheaded by Hitchcock at his residence in Egmond aan den Hoef.

While breathing and creating show in Paris, she presented works in the many exhibitions, salons, and gallery showings. She was trendy into the 1898 Paris Salon where she exhibited two works, Le sabot casse created in France and Recolte des pommes de terre, created in Holland. In 1903, she entered the Reims Exposition Internationale where she normal a silver medal.

While studying abroad, Woodward made a say for herself within the American colony in Paris, a intervention of Americans studying Good arts in the heart of Paris. She became a ration of the Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs. This group, established by Helene Bertaux (1825-1909), created a means for which female artists could Make an acknowledged presence within the art world. Woodward was along with a part of the Pittsburgh Art Association throughout her yet to be life and the Hawaiian Academy of the Arts during her unconventional career, a place where she exhibited pieces on numerous occasions.

Woodward lived in Paris throughout the first world war. After pain from malnutrition, she was diagnosed in the appearance of a heart impairment and was advised to travel to a warmer climate. She subsequently traveled to Africa and Hawaii, where she took up address in 1918 in the neighborhood of Waikiki. She became a renowned voice in the wealthy and artistic communities of Hawaii, commissioning many works for local patrons.

Her works have been exhibited in many galleries throughout the United States and France, including the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She exhibited for two exhibition seasons at the Institute in 1909, in in the middle of her back-and-forth travels to Paris. She was plus exhibited throughout local galleries in Hawaii and the Honolulu Academy of Arts for her depictions of the Hawaiian Islands. Her works, A Honolulu Garden, Manoa Valley, and The Dunes are in the middle of her more Famous pieces that are representative of the Hawaiian landscape.

In ahead of time 1935, The State University of Iowa exhibited Woodward's fragment entitled, The Dunes, in an exhibit pretend casing a little collection of masters from the Davenport Municipal Art Gallery. Woodward's piece was in the middle of many Famous artists, including Harry Van der Weyden and Richard E. Miller, both of whom moreover studied at the Académie Julian. The do something is currently housed at the University of Iowa Museum of Art.

Woodward after that wrote columns and articles for local magazines and newspapers in Hawaii. She wrote player works columns, critiqued local exhibitions, and commented on the Hawaiian Islands as a harbinger of artistic inspiration. Her artwork was furthermore used for the magazine, “Paradise in the Pacific” throughout the 1920s and 1930s. She is best known for her writings regarding her times within the art community in both Paris and in Holland, entitled, “Art Life in France and Holland.”

Woodward died at Queen's Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, on July 12, 1935, at the age of 67. Her remains were taken urge on to her place of birth and were placed at the Homewood Cemetery in Pittsburgh. Her works are still circulating amid galleries, museums, and mammal sold at auction.