M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES
CHARLES HERBERT WOODBURY
American 1864 – 1940 (Massachusetts & Maine)
“NEW ENGLAND COAST WITH BOATS”
Oil on Canvas
Signed and dated l.l. Woodbury 1901
Museums (17): including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design-Museum
of Art, Chrysler Museum of Art, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Art
Author:
The Art of Seeing (1925), and Painting and the Personal Equation
(1922).
Books (56) : including Vose Galleries, Charles H Woodbury and Marcia Oakes Woodbury
Periodicals: American Art Review, 1999, April; Magazine Antiques, 1998 November,
American Art Review, 1998, August, Charles H Woodbury & His Students
Image size: 17” High x 21” Wide
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WOODBURY, Charles Herbert (1864-1940)
Birth place: Lynn, MA
Death place: Jamaica Plain (Boston), MA
Addresses: Boston, MA, 1887-97/Ogunquit, ME
Profession: Marine painter, etcher, teacher, writer
Studied: Cobbett School, 1875-77; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1882-86 (an engineering major, he was largely
self-taught, but took informal watercolor class with Ross S. Turner; Académie Julian, Paris, with Boulanger and Lefebvre, 1890-91)
Exhibited: Lynn Art Exhibition, 1880 (2nd prize); Boston Arts Club, 1882, 1884 (prize), 1895 (prize); J. Eastman Chase
Gallery, Boston, 1887 (first solo; sold out show); National Academy of Design, 1887-97,1932 (prize, 1932); 1888 (solo),
1891 and 1896 (both joint exhibitions with wife Marcia); Klackner Gallery 1889 (etchings); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Annual, 1890-1938; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1924 (gold); New Salon, Paris, 1891 (etching) Salons of the Société
Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1891; Art Institute of Chicago, 1892-1939; Paris Salon, 1894 (painting); Atlanta Expo, 1895 (gold);
Tennessee Centennial, Nashville, 1897 (prize); Mechanics' Fair, Boston (medals); Paris Expo, 1900 (med); Pan-American Expo, Buffalo,
1901 (med); Worcester Museum of Art, 1903 (prize), 1907 (prize); St. Louis Expo, 1904 (med); Carnegie Institute, 1905 (prize);
Corcoran Gallery biennials, 1907-37 (15 times; including silver medal, 1914); Buenos Aires Expo, 1910 (medal); American Watercolor
Society, 1911 (prize); W.A. Clark Prize, 1914; Pan.-Pacific Expo, San Francisco, 1915 (medals); Brooklyn, 1931 (prize); Society of
American Etchers, 1933 (prize); Vose Gallery, Boston, 1978, 1980; Charles H. Woodbury and His Students,"
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 1998"
Member: Boston Art Club, 1884 (became the Club's youngest member at the age of 17); Society of American Artists, 1899;
Associate National Academy of Design, 1906; National Academy 1907; Boston Society Watercolor Painters; NY Watercolor Club;
Boston Gallery Art; Ogunquit Art Assn.
Work: Boston Museum of Fine Art; Addison Gallery of American Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Berkshire Athenaeum;
Boston Public Library; Carnegie Institute; St. Louis Art Museum; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Danforth Museum of Art; Detroit
Institute of Art; Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard; Gardner Museum, Boston; Herron Art Institute; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha;
Museum of Modern Art; Carnegie Institute; Rhode Island School of Design; Utah Collection; Telfair Academy, Savannah;
Worcester Museum of Art; Colby College; Ogunquit Museum American Art; Portland (ME) Museum of Art ; San Francisco
Museum of Art; Peabody Museum, Salem; Wellesley College; Adler Planetarium & Astronomical Museum, Chicago
(six paintings made in Ogunquit showing the solar eclipse of Aug. 31, 1932)
Comments: A highly influential teacher of many students, most of whom were women, who flocked to his summer classes
held at Ogunquit, Maine, from 1898-1934 (teaching hiatus during WWI). He produced his first etching in 1882, and during
his early career was an illustrator for Century and Harper's, 1888-89. He traveled extensively in Europe and made at least
eighteen trips to the Caribbean from 1901-39. He also taught classes at his Boston studio; at Worcester AA (1895); Wellesley Col.
(1899-06; 1913-14); and Pine Hill School (1907-10). In his teaching and in his own work, he was concerned with conveying
a true sense of movement, and instructed his students to paint in verbs, not in nouns" (quoted in Charles Woodbury and His Students).
His wife Marcia Oakes Woodbury was also an artist. Publications: Author, Painting and Personal Equation (1919); Co-author,
with Elizabeth W. Perkins, The Art of Seeing (1925).
Sources: WW38; Charles H. Woodbury (exh. cat., Boston: Vose Galleries, 1978). Charles H. Woodbury and
Marcia Oakes Woodbury (exh. cat., Boston: Vose Galleries, 1980); biography by George M. Young, Force Through Delicacy
(Randall Pub., Portsmouth, NH, 1998); Charles Woodbury and His Students; Falk, Exh. Record Series.
(This biography is drawn from the "Who Was Who in American Art" , the reference book on the cultural life in the United States. )
Museums:
Addison Gallery of American Art
Chrysler Museum of Art
El Paso Museum of Art
Farnsworth Art Museum
Frederick R Weisman Art Museum
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Mobile Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Rhode Island School of Design-Museum of Art
San Diego Museum of Art
Telfair Museum of Art
The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire
The Detroit Institute of Arts
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The University of Michigan Museum of Art
Worcester Art Museum
St. Louis Art Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Danforth Museum of Art
Carnegie Institute
Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco Museum of Art
Peabody Museum
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