Mabel May Woodward (September 28, 1877 – August 14, 1945)[2][3][4] was a prominent Rhode Island impressionist painter during the late 19th and early 20th century.

[6] Woodward was born on September 28, 1877, to a stable, affluent family in Providence, Rhode Island,[7] where she spent most of her life, except for a brief period in San Francisco and many summers in Ogunquit, Maine.

Later in 1898, she attended the Art Students League of New York, studying under William Merritt Chase, Kenyon Cox and Frank Duveneck.

[10][11][12] She also studied for a time at the Ogunquit Art Colony in Maine,[8] with Arthur Wesley Dow and Charles Woodbury.

Woodward's work began to be rediscovered, and some of her larger portraits and beach studies have sold in the six-figure range.