The Red Bathing Suit

Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1864, Charles Woodbury spent his career primarily focused on the sea. He studied mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before becoming an art teacher in Boston. Widely recognized as the founder of Maine's Ogunquit Artists Colony—where he and his wife settled in 1896—Woodbury additionally co-authored two books published in the 1920s, entitled Painting and the Personal Equation and The Art of Seeing. His works are now in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C, and the Ogunquit Museum of Art, Ogunquit, Maine, among others.