page_title: Marcia Oakes Woodbury
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Marcia Oakes Woodbury / Career
caption_attribution_description: Watercolor; Drawings
context_page_description: Marcia Oakes Woodbury was an American painter.
context_section_description: While living in Holland, Woodbury painted everyday scenes of Dutch children and their lifestyles. Her paintings are described as depicting "Dutch innocence and simplicity in home-made, clumsy attire." While journeying through Europe, Woodbury picked up the Dutch language so she could "develop personal relationships with her models, their families, and the local community." At the 1895 Atlanta Exposition she earned a gold medal for her art, and later earned more medals at both the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association and Boston Art Club.
  Woodbury developed a close friendship with Sarah Orne Jewett and she completed illustrations alongside her husband for Jewett's books Deephaven and The Tory Lover. Her watercolor painting Dutch Woman is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. After her death, 40 of Woodbury's drawings and water colors and oil paintings were put on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
caption: Woodbury's painting "Dutch Woman" is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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