Featured Artwork: In The Sugar Bush

There are not many diary comments for paintings this early in the artist career. This is no exception.

When Sap Runs, 1930-'31
This is the closest known painting that fits the
description of a sugar bush. Note all the buckets
collecting sap. However, there is another painting
that might be better but the image is terrible.
If you are still interested also see Sugaring

Editor's Note:

This painting hung at a homecoming of sorts for Woodward. He did not attend the 1919 Arts & Crafts Show at his alma mater, the Bradley Polytechnic Institute, in Peoria, IL. He sent 7 paintings (we only know the names of four) as a triumphant return to the school that shaped him more than any other. It just happened to come a month after Woodward was awarded the First Prize in the Hallgarten category for best artist under 35 at the National Academy of Design.

We do not know the subject of this painting but according to Wikipedia, a 'sugar bush' is, "a forest stand of maple trees which is utilized for maple syrup. This was originally an Indigenous camp set up for several weeks each spring, beginning when the ice began to melt and ending when the tree buds began to open. At a traditional sugarbush, all the trees were hand tapped and the sap was boiled over wood fires. The Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) peoples have been doing sugarbush for generations and consider the process both a part of food and of medicine."  Wikipedia

None of the descriptions below even come close to suggesting a building in this painting, we wondered if it might be related to the painting, Sugaring

RSW re-typed this critique