RSW's Diary Comments

"Painted in 1943. View of the village of Heath showing church and store, the first outdoor painting made in 1943. Clifton Eldridge helping me then. Excellent expression of the high Heath mountain top atmosphere. Bought in 1945 by Mr. Luther Perry of Shelburne Falls, and St. Petersburg, Florida."

This is the painting that would be the basis of what is the composite painting Village Street. Woodward assembled (the reason he called them composites) the tree line of Falling Gold with the right side of this painting to make Village Street illustrated below.

A side by side comparison of the trees of Falling Gold and Village Street
Below: Heath Village makes up the right side of the of the painting.

The best thing about this situation is that Village Street gives us an indication of the coloring and tones of this painting and Falling Gold, for which we do not have a color image of either.