Normally, Woodward did not keep records of his pastel paintings he called chalk drawings.
We love the knowledge that Woodward would make available the chance
for someone to arrange a payment plan to purchase a chalk drawing. This is exactly the reason he
stuck with them throughout his career... for the general public to have access to fine art. We do not
know why he did not keep records of them. The assumption is that he did not consider them as
important as his oils, however, that has been disproved. It is possibly more likely that he made so
many and gave away a significant number of them as gifts for property owners that let him of their
property to paint that he simply could not possibly compile all of the chalks he made or their names
in the 1940s when he began to assemble his painting diary.
Below is a record the artist
kept in a ledger of the payments made by the Millers.
"Mrs. Ronald Miller Account
On Oct. 21 - '49 they paid me $15.00 toward the $125.00 payment for the chalk drawing
The Hills of Shelburne which they took home with them = the balance to be paid at the rate of $15.00 a month.
Oct 21st
-- 1949 paid... $15.00
Nov. 14 " "
$15.00"