Mabel May Woodward (American/Rhode Island, 1877-1945), "Iris", oil on canvas laid on board, signed lower right, 10 3/4 in. x 7 5/8 in., framed, overall 17 3/8 in. x 14 1/8 in. x 2 1/2 in. Note: American Impressionist painter Mabel May Woodward was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She received her early art training at the Rhode Island School of Design and continued her studies at the Art Students League of New York with William Merritt Chase, George Bridgman, Arthur Wesley Dow and Kenyon Cox. She attended Charles Herbert Woodbury?s Ogunquit Summer School of Drawing and Painting in Maine and later worked with Frank DuMond in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Woodward won a gold medal at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1908 and was widely exhibited nationally. She also was a faculty member of the Rhode Island School of Design for twenty-five years, where she developed the ?Action Class,? a pioneering concept to study the human figure as a machine rather than a stationary object. Woodward?s subjects included genre scenes, European villages, farms, still lifes, flowers and the airy New England coastal scenes for which she is best known. Ref.: ?Mabel Woodward 1877-1945.? William Vareika Fine Arts Ltd. www.vareikafinearts.com. Accessed May 1, 2024.

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