Quick Reference
c. 1931
Unknown
Pastel Painting
Landscape
Pastures, Farms, Barns
25 X 21 5/8
Pynchon Gallery Museum, 1929
Smith Coll. Tryon Gallery, 1931
Mt. Holyoke Coll. Dwight Hall, 1931
Valleyhead Sanitarium, 1932, '34
Springville (UT) Art Association, '51
Estate Held
NA
Jeanette C. Matthews
Related Links
- See also the...
Chalks & Crayons Gallery to view other drawings
- See also the Pastures Gallery for related pieces.
- See also the...
Farms Gallery to view related pieces.
- See also the Exhibition List for other Exhibits.
Artwork Mentioned
- God's Quiet Acre
- Mount Peru in Summer
- From The Heights
- The Sea Of Hills, Chalk
- The Genial Old House, Chalk
- December Farm; A Winter Sketch
- The Young Tree And The Old House
- The Twin Barns
- Aeolus: Home Of The Winds, 1929
- From The Pasture Top
- A High and Rocky Mowing
- The Hopper at Greylock
- The Chimney Shadow
- Warped Roofs
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Featured Artwork: Clouds In May
RSW's Diary Comments
• Woodward did not keep records of the pastels he called "chalk drawings."
Editor's Note:
Who else thinks this might be a tribute to Claude Monet? There is just something about the treatment of the ploughed field and surrounding pastures that feel like Monet. Perhaps this is also why Woodward kept it for his personal collection... because it is out of the ordinary from his typical blended works.
Additional Notes
The Pynchon Gallery Exhibition is one of the few exhibitions that featured
Woodward's "Crayon Drawings." As many as 13 were reported to be exhibited and this website is not aware of any
exhibit that featured more than this number. The Deerfield Academy, 1932 Exhibition featured 10 drawings. Not
always, but as a general rule, if Woodward featured pastels at a major showing, they co
Springfield Republican, 1929, by Jeanette C. Matthews
"'Clouds in May' will fascinate you with the design that winding road and plowed field, patterned clouds and fluffed out apple trees make."
This crayon drawing remains in the collection of the artist as a personal
favorite.
Regarding the Chalk Drawings
The following is an excerpt from, "An Artist of his Time", a lecture, hosted by the Friends of RSW, on RSW by Peter Trippi, editor-in-chief, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, which also did a feature article on RSW. CLICK HERE to view the Article
"...the pastel works - they're just fantastic. And I'm afraid that they photograph very well but you don't really appreciate the difficulty of making them until you see them up close. That as you know with pastel, you have to be very very good to make it work, because it hard to correct a mistake. With oil paint it's much easier to cover over the error. But these are really really spectacular."