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Woodward describes his body of work by the chronological
periods during which he painted. He studied art
in Philadelphia, New York and France with well-known
academic painters and knew many of the great modernist
innovators in art when in Paris. After serving with
the Army Air Corps during WWII, he studied on the
GI Bill at the Art Students League with Yasuo Kunioshi
and also in Paris in 1947-49 at La Grande Chaumiere
under Emile Othon Friesz and at the Beaux Arts under
Albert Gleizes. This "First Period" (1947-1972)
was more traditional and tightly painted than the
expressionist works that would follow.
Mr. Woodward describes his "Second Period"
(1973 - 1981) as one in which he drifted away
from representational art and created paintings
from his imagination with a more lyrical dimension.
He was living in Spain on the Mediterranean and
designing hardware and systems for yachts - both
power and sail - for export to France, England,
the US, Germany as well as Spain. His love of
sailing and salt water counted as stimuli for
his art during this period.
Mr. Woodward moved to Philadelphia in 1981 and
refers to the art created since then as his "Third
Period." The paintings in this period alternate
between representational and abstract - he is
equally at home in both modes. No matter what
the subject, the result of Mr. Woodward's work
is original. He is adept at capturing in both
line and color, motion, space and mystery. His
humor, his love of light and life, and his verve
or seeming ease with which he accomplishes his
paintings shines through each new creation. He
exhibited in Philadelphia, New York and Chicago
before moving to Virginia in 1993.
Excerpted by permission from an essay written by
Lyn Bolen Warren, Director, Les Yeux du Monde.
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