STATISTICAL BREAKDOWN OF AWARDS: 21 total for 19 paintings. (Two paintings received 2 awards each)

⮞ 1st Prize Overall: 6x; in a Category: 3x (once by popular vote), for a total of nine.

⮞ 2nd Prize: 3x, (twice by popular vote)

⮞ 3rd Place: 2x ( both by popular vote)

⮞ 4th Place: 1x

⮞ Honorable Mentions: 5x

⮞ Special Honors: 2x (The Boston Tercentennial honor, he was one of only four recipients and the only landscape artist.)

✽✽  For additional context: The 2nd place at BAC and the two 3rd place awards by popular vote were be-hind portrait artist meaning Woodward was the top vote getting landscape artist of each exhibition and he mis-sed second place by just 4 votes at Corcoran. Only 17 votes of thousands separated first and third place at that show. At the time, portraits were the most popular art form of the art world.

To be invited to an exhibition means that you do not have to go through a selection process resided over by a jury. For instance, all submissions to the National Academy of Design's (NAD) annual show is by jury. The jury is often comprised of officials from whatever group is producing the exhibit. Often you must ship the painting at your own expense and if your work is not selected it can be costly.

To be invited to a "World Fair" or exposition means you aware chosen by the curator of the Fair's art exhibit, thus it is an honor in and of itself.