Woodson - Rodney
Woodson, Rodney (1895-?)
Rodney Woodson was born in Baldwin, Louisiana on July 6, 1895. He attended public schools in San Antonio, Texas; Oyster Bay, New York; and Norwalk, Connecticut; and high schools in New York City, Oyster Bay, and Meriden, Connecticut. He moved to Connecticut in 1909. Woodson studied art under Ms. Temple of Oyster Bay, and Ms. Lila C. Yale in Meriden. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Yale School of Fine Arts and studied art in Paris. Woodson won the John Ferguson Weir Scholarship in 1920 and the Beaux Art Medals in 1919, 1922, and 1923. At the time he worked for the WPA Federal Arts Project he was living in West Haven, Connecticut. He completed 31 watercolors and oils under the WPA. Woodson’s date of death is unknown.
Source: WPA Biography.
Works of Art Listed in CT Archives’ database from Rodney Woodson:
| The Water Spout: | watercolor |
| Houses by the Shore: | oil |
| Wheelbarrow: | oil |
| Hollyhocks: | oil |
| Wall & Wash: | oil |
| The Garden Path: | oil |
| Trees: | oil |
| Any Street: | oil |
| Flowers: | oil |
| Still Life- Ivy: | oil |
| Picnicking by the Sea: | oil |
| Cedars: | oil |
| Oil Lamp & Butter Ladle: | oil |
| The Chimney: | oil |
| Columbus: | watercolor |
| Still Life- Pitcher & Fruit: | oil |
| Sail Boat: | oil |
| Still Life- Impression: | oil |
| House on a Rock: | oil |
| Indian Paint Pots and Shawl: | watercolor |
| Landscape: | watercolor |
| Old Houses: | watercolor |
| Horse and Buggy: | watercolor |
| Pitchers: | watercolor |
| Mayflower and Sugar Bowl: | watercolor |
| Toby: | watercolor |
| Decorative Landscape: | watercolor |
| Locomotive: | watercolor |
| Old Planes: | watercolor |
| Covered Wagon: | watercolor |
| Silver Cup: | watercolor |
| Lincoln’s Home: | watercolor |
| Lake George: | watercolor |
| Shoes: | watercolor |
| Hobamack the Friendly Guide: | watercolor |
| Squanto, The Puritan’s Friend: | watercolor |
| Huck and Tom and Raft: | watercolor |
| Melting Snow: | watercolor |
| Last Year’s Christmas: | oil |
| Spring: | oil |
| Home from the Farm: | oil |
| Flowers: | oil |
| Cottage Window: | oil |
| Old Woman: | oil |
| Early Morning: | watercolor |
| The Miller: | oil |
| To Town: | oil |
| The Builder: | watercolor |
| Her Family: | watercolor |
| Ships: | watercolor |
| Fifi at Lunch: | watercolor |
| Pitchers: | watercolor |
| The Antonio: | watercolor |
| Sydenham Tea Pot: | watercolor |
| Abraham Lincoln’s Bust: | watercolor |
| Greek Vase: | watercolor |
| The News: | oil |
| Nantucket Shore: | oil |
| Farmington River: | oil |
| Outpost: | oil |
| Autumn: | oil |
| In the Pequots Country: | oil |
| Berkshire Hills: | oil |
| Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe: | oil |
| Late Summers: | oil |
| West Wind: | oil |
| Man with a Hoe: | oil |
| Indian Paint Pots & Shaw: |