(1862-1939)
Louise was a New Orleans native, a member of the early Tulane Decorative Art League, and one of the first Newcomb Art School students. A painter, sculptor and potter from 1888-1912, she excelled in the watercolor medium and was gifted in her studies of nature. These studies, which often incorporated marine life, were prompted by the family’s vacations on the Gulf Coast from 1891. Although she was an active member in the local art associations, her studio work was curtailed by her duties as a mother and wife to William Woodward, her former professor. The Woodwards retired to Biloxi in the early 1920’s, where William founded the Mississippi Gulf Coast Art Association.
