Anna Woodward
Anna Woodward (1868–1935) was an American painter who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1868. She studied painting at the Académie Julian in Paris with Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, and William-Adolphe Bouguereau, and also with George Hitchcock in Holland. By 1918, she moved to Hawaii from Paris with a studio near Waikiki. She was influenced by the impressionist movement, creating landscape portraits. During the 1920s and 1930s she produced illustrations and paintings for Paradise of the Pacific. Woodward died in Honolulu in 1935. The University of Iowa Museum of Art is among the public collections that hold works by Anna Woodward. Biography Anna Woodward was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 26, 1868. She was born to Anna M. W. Steiner and Marcus A. Woodward; a wealthy and well-known lawyer in Pittsburgh. She spent her childhood in Pennsylvania, earning a bachelor's degree. Soon after, Woodward went to Paris with the accompaniment of her mother and enrolled at the Académie Julian, with a focus in oil painting. She studied painting under the instruction of Jules-Joseph LeFebvre, Tony Robert-Fleury, and William Bourguereau. During the summer, she attended a small private school led by George Hitchcock, a former student of Jules-Joseph LeFebvre