The July Century - Les Maitre de l'Affiche - 1895

The rich effects of his poster designs were conveyed by the disposition of sharp lines and flat areas of limited color. Like Dow (see PL.36), another native Massachusetts artist, Woodbury founded his sense of design on familiarity with Japanese art, championed by Fenollosa at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Woodbury's six posters received favorable comment from American and European critics (Reference: Lauder, p.192)