Featured Artwork: From a Mountain Pasture

Between Winter and Spring, 1938
The only painting we could find of a mountain pasture
with small pines but the perspective is not right.

Note made by Dr. Mark for this painting:

"This RSW oil painting is a rare example of a painting which did not get photographed by Mr. Ashworth the local professional photographer. I have no negative image of it nor, consequently any sepia print. The only comment concerning the painting was found in a letter to a friend and prospective buyer. However, it was not recorded that he eventually actually purchased the painting."

An excerpt from the letter mentioned above:

"This is the autumn canvas we mentioned. Tawny yellow and red-brown, pale yellow grasses in foreground, considerable blue in pasture rocks, deep blue mountains and sky spaces. Touch of bluish green in small pines. Clouds pearly white with violet tones. Overall effect subdued rather than brilliant."

Editor's Note:

We now try to add images of other paintings to suggest what paintings we do not have images of might be similar too, however, we could NOT find another painting meeting all the features in the description given by Woodward. While we want to believe the painting is probably the Burnt Pasture in Heath, we could not even find one showing any evidence of "small pines." The image above of Between Winter and Spring is not the right perspective because Woodward describes "mountains" and "sky spaces," indicating a vast distant perspective. Between Winter and Spring is looking straight up the hill to the mountain's peak.