August 9, 1968
Springfield, Mass,
G.W.V. Smith Art Museum

RE: WOODWARD "THRO' THE HILLS IN MAY"; Oil on canvas 25 x 30"; signed, lower l, "Robert Strong Woodward". no date

(Marks verso - on canvas-back, L above, "Robert Strong Woodward Shelburne Falls, Massts. (erasure) " in charcoal ? Or grease? Pencil; on stretcher, below L, "P 117, in crayon and "Through The Hills And May" in pencil as above"; on stretcher, upper R. A label, torn. Printed, "Artist No.
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Size
Standahl Galleries
Written, "Robert S. Woodward 237 "Through the Hills in May" 25 x 30)

Canvas in fair to good condition; paint well-attached, generally, except in several areas, top, of massive cracquelure (as in the woodland night-scene); varnish absent or disintegrated, allowing considerable dirt to've collected on the paint surface. Two vandallistic punctures through the support, upper R; one, lower R. Paint insoluble in ordinary solvents.