About Mabel May Woodward
Lived 1877 – 1945 (aged 67). Mabel May Woodward was an American painter and artist.
Early life and education Woodward was born on September 28, 1877, to a stable, affluent family in Providence, Rhode Island, where she spent most of her life, except for a brief period in San Francisco and many summers in Ogunquit, Maine. Her family gave her the "finest domestic art education then available." with Arthur Wesley Dow and Charles Woodbury.
Career She was faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design for over twenty years. There, she originated a class known as the "action class," in which students studied the human figure as a machine rather than as a stationary object.
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Who was Mabel May Woodward?
American painter (1877–1945)
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Mabel May Woodward was born on 28 September 1877 in Providence.
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Mabel May Woodward died on 14 August 1945 in Providence.
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Mabel May Woodward was a painter and artist.
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