Laura Woodward

Laura Woodward (1834 - 1926) was an American painter. She was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2013.

She was born on March 18, 1834 in Mount Hope in Orange County, New York. She lived in New York City and painted in the Catskills, the White Mountains, the Adirondacks, the Green Mountains, Maine coast, Massachusetts coast, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. She captured many landscapes in oil on canvas and was a member of the Hudson River School and White Mountain School. He work was exhibited at the American Art Gallery, National Academy of Design, Boston Art Club, Brooklyn Art Association, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 and in other shows.

Woodward began to spend the winters in St. Augustine, Florida in the 1880s and by the end of 1889 she had joined Martin Johnson Heade and the other artists at Henry M. Flagler's Ponce de Leon Hotel. She sought out exotic plants and flowers; painted watercolor sketches and depicted the Seminole Indians in the Everglades.