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MABEL MAY WOODWARD
Beach Scene with Bathers
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Oil on canvas, circa 1915-20. 445x535 mm; 17
1
/
2
x21 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.
Woodward (1877-1945) was a native of Providence. She studied at the Rhode Island
School of Design in Providence and at the Art Students League, NewYork.Through her
association with William Merrit Chase and his Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art
at the turn-of-the-century,Woodward developed a
plein-air
, Impressionistic, light-drenched
style of painting, adopting Chase’s heavy brush strokes, deep impasto and his play on light
and shadow.
Woodward taught at the Rhode Island School of Design for 25 years during the early
1900s. During her summers she traveled frequently to Provincetown, Massachusetts, and
Ogunquit, Maine, whence she sourced the beach subjects of many of her paintings.
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