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The Woodman Family Foundation was established by Betty Woodman (1930-2018) and George Woodman (1932-2017) during their lifetimes. Love of beauty was at the heart of their lives and art. In this spirit, the Foundation is dedicated to stewarding the artistic legacies of Betty, George, and their daughter, Francesca Woodman (1958-1981).

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Celebrating the life and impact of Agnes Gund
Celebrating the life and impact of Agnes Gund
Tireless advocate and patron saint of art and social justice. Devoted friend and supporter to so many artists, curators, and institutions, including Betty Woodman and George Woodman and many of our Board members. Equity-focused creator of Studio in a School and the Studio Institute, whose summer interns we've been fortunate to host for many years.
Betty Woodman's pursuit of gold. FROM THE ARCHIVES
Betty Woodman's pursuit of gold. FROM THE ARCHIVES
Betty Woodman's creative process was deeply informed by travel and she often returned home with ideas sparked by experiences working abroad, drawing inspiration from the techniques she encountered during residencies. An example of these influences is Woodman’s pursuit of the radiant gold that appears throughout her work.
Matisse’s influence on the Woodman family: La Chapelle du Rosaire. FROM THE ARCHIVES
Matisse’s influence on the Woodman family: La Chapelle du Rosaire. FROM THE ARCHIVES
Matisse’s influence on the Woodman family is evident not only in the joie de vivre and cut-out forms of Betty Woodman’s ceramic sculptures, but also in the architectural sensibilities that inform both her and George Woodman’s work. George’s site-specific paper tile installations, in particular, invite comparison to Matisse’s Chapelle du Rosaire—not through direct lineage, but through a shared devotion to formal clarity, and the transformative potential of scale and repetition.
NOW ON VIEW: Betty Woodman in "The Mad MAD World of Jonathan Adler,” 2025
NOW ON VIEW: Betty Woodman in "The Mad MAD World of Jonathan Adler,” 2025
Curated by potter, interior designer, and author Jonathan Adler, this vibrant exhibition at MAD brings together over 60 works from the museum’s permanent collection, juxtaposed with Adler’s own iconic designs.
NOW ON VIEW: Francesca Woodman in "Places to Dream," Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark, 2025
NOW ON VIEW: Francesca Woodman in "Places to Dream," Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark, 2025
This September marks the final opportunity to view Places to Dream, an exhibition featuring photographs by Francesca Woodman alongside works by Cindy Sherman, Ana Mendieta, Birgit Jürgenssen, and Nan Goldin, among others.
The Woodmans and the alluring shores
The Woodmans and the alluring shores
Betty Woodman, Francesca Woodman, and George Woodman also succumbed to the lure of beaches and seashores in their work, each artist reimagining the beachscape with a distinct sensibility and overlapping visual languages.
The Woodmans and the serenity of lakes
The Woodmans and the serenity of lakes
This summer, take in the fluid beauty of water as seen through the eyes of Betty Woodman, George Woodman, and Francesca Woodman.
"Re-Presentations of the Past: Through Francesca Woodman's Lens" by Ambar-Vasquez Mitra
"Re-Presentations of the Past: Through Francesca Woodman's Lens" by Ambar-Vasquez Mitra
We are pleased to share “Re-Presentations of the Past: Through Francesca Woodman’s Lens” by Ambar Vasquez-Mitra, who was our Research Intern this summer through the Studio Institute Arts Intern program.
"Betty Woodman: Images of Function” by Layaan Roufai
"Betty Woodman: Images of Function” by Layaan Roufai
We are pleased to share “Betty Woodman: Images of Function” by Layaan Roufai, who was our Library & Archives intern this summer through the Studio Institute Arts Intern program.
George Woodman's still life photography
George Woodman's still life photography
George Woodman’s still life photography bears unmistakable traces of his decades-long career as a painter: His compositions—re-photographed prints and negatives, fruits and drapery, sculptures and paintings collapsed into a single pictorial space—are at once witty and rich in art historical allusion.
Betty Woodman's favorite ceramic color, blue, and her body of work
Betty Woodman's favorite ceramic color, blue, and her body of work
Betty Woodman is known for her exuberant body of work, which is often bathed in vivid hues of yellow, fuchsia, red, and orange. Yet in the December 2006 issue of The Studio Potter devoted solely to color, she confessed—“without a moment’s hesitation”—that blue was her favorite.
Brooke Holmes on Francesca Woodman in "Parentheses of Reception," 2025: READING ROOM
Brooke Holmes on Francesca Woodman in "Parentheses of Reception," 2025: READING ROOM
Published in May 2025, the anthology "Parentheses of Reception" explores how the parenthesis, a rhetorical figure of speech and thought, can offer fresh insights into classical reception studies by conceptualizing Greco-Roman antiquity as being both “inserted into” and “remaining apart” from the present.