Quick Reference

Time Period:
Unknown but prior to 1926.

Location:
Unknown

Medium:
Oil on Canvas

Type:
Landscape

Category:
Sugaring, Woods

Size:
27 X 30

Exhibited:
Home of Ronald T. Lyman, 1926
J.H. Miller Galleries, 1928

Purchased:
Unknown

Provenance:
NA

Noteworthy:

"The power of suggested activity in At Sugaring Time illustrates one of the things Mr. Woodward does best." From newspaper clipping

Featured Artwork: At Sugaring Time

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RSW's Diary Comments

This painting was listed in the diary, but there was no description.

Comments on the back of a sepia print:

Back of At Sugaring Time sepia print

PHOTOGRAPH BY
H.R. ASHWORTH
Shelburne Falls, Mass.

"At Sugaring Time" 27" x 30"
Theme: gathering maple - sap in Spring woods - Red wooden sap buckets - Roadside color, tawny yellow, with snow patches in woods foreground. Woods interior, subtle, iridescent spring colors of soft pink and violet. Tree trunks pale grays and violet, interspersed with dark green of Remlocks. Sky soft hazy early spring blue.

Additional Notes

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To the Right: Boston Globe, 1926 by A. J. Philpott

".....is a fine wood scene."

Springfield Union, by Jeanette Matthews

"Into the Winter Woods and At Sugaring Time are all good winter pictures. The power of suggested activity in At Sugaring Time illustrates one of the things Mr. Woodward does best."

A review of the 1928 J.H. Miller Exhibition

A close up of that "suggested activity" can be seen in the image below.