Charles Woodbury

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=125 BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f467d1dyxtip.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Garamond" ><B>David & Donna Kmetz, American Paintings</B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="David Donna Kmetz, American Paintings"><U>home</U></A></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B>Charles Woodbury</B></div> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="db1ac7f0.jpg" border=0 width="172" height="127" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Charles Woodbury</div> <div> <I><IMG SRC="db2400a0.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="266" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="6" VSPACE="0"></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Garamond" ><B>Charles Herbert Woodbury, N.A.  (1864 - 1940)</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>Figures on a Cliff</B></div> <div> <I>Oil on board, 8" x 10"</I></div> <div> <I>Bearing exhibition label from Vose Galleries, Boston</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>One of the most influential New England artists and teachers of the early 20</I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#777777" FACE="Garamond" ><I>th</I></FONT><I> century, Charles Woodbury taught hundreds of students at his summer school in Ogunquit, his Boston studio, and at Wellesley College, Pine Hill School, Dartmouth College, and the Worcester Art Association. Woodbury was born in Lynn, Massachusetts.  He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an Engineering Degree with Honors, 1882-1886.  Largely self-taught, he became the youngest member of the Boston Art Club at the age of seventeen. After marrying artist Susan Marcia Oakes in 1890, the couple went to study in Holland and then Paris. Active in many art associations, Woodbury won numerous awards and medals.  </I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="dcb40e90.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="233" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="6" VSPACE="0"></I><B>Lighted Water</B></div> <div> <I>Oil on board, 10" x 14"</I></div> <div> <I>Bearing exhibition label from Vose Galleries, Boston</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>During his lifetime </I><I>Woodbury was given over 60 one-man exhibitions, the first being at the J. Eastman Chase Gallery, Boston (1887) and the last at the Winchester Public Library, MA (1939). Eighteen Memorial Shows were given (1940-41). In 1945 the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston held a Retrospective Exhibition. In 1968, Adelson Galleries, Inc. (then of Boston) and in 1978 Vose Galleries of Boston gave Retrospectives. In 1988 M.I.T. gave a monumental Woodbury exhibition titled Earth, Sea and Sky that traveled to museums through 1993. </I><I>He is represented at the Gardner Museum; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Herron Art Institute; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; St. Louis Art Museum; Boston Public Library; Berkshire Atheneum; Detroit Art Institute; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Joslyn Art Museum; Worcester Art Museum; R.I. School of Design; Telfair Academy, Savannah; Colby College; Wellesley Colllege and in 100's of other museums and institutions. </I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>