RSW's Diary Comments

"Prior to1930. A large painting with dark opening into the woods through birch trees, made up Hog Hollow Road at back of Uncle Bert's orchard below "old barn."

Clarification on the image above:

The image used on this page is not an oil painting. It is clearly a chalk drawing. Note the squggley lines used to fill in the background. Such lines would not be found in an oil painting. With that being said this image matches the description given in RSW's diary comments. Moreover, there appears to be two names associated with this image, this painting, and At the Edge of the Woods.

At the Edge of the Pines is not listed in the exhibition list. It may be that the chalk drawing is At the Edge of the Pines, the name on the back of the photograph. It is rare, but there are a couple of black and white photos of chalk drawings, Vermont Barns is an example. But Vermont Barns exhibited 3 times in 2 years, thus the image.

We feel like more should be said about these inconsistancies, but we do not know more. The picture used above was named "At the Edge of the Pines" despite clearly being a pastel. The picture itself is black and white. We do not have a color image and do not know the location. there is also an issue with what its name really is because the is also "At the Edge of the Woods" attributed to the same suject. This is not unusal for Woodward.