Featured Artwork: In New England

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Editor's Note:

September Peace (1918)

The information we have in regard to this painting gives us enough to offer an image of another scene from the same time period- September Peace seen to the right. The year 1918 is in parenthesis because there is a second painting by the same name painted in 1933 making the year now integral with its name. A common practice of Woodward in his early years to do more than one version of a particular scene and simply number them-- #1, #2... There are 3 confirmed versions of Evening Stream! But when it came to his chalk drawings, he always seem to make sure it had a different name-- some times similar, others not so much.

The description below says it is a farm with blue hills and bright sunlight and September Peace fits that description. Another farm painting akin to September Peace but not as bright in sunlight is An Old Farm (1920) . Mixing it up a bit, Woodward, takes the scene from An Old Farm and paints it again in 1926 for the Lyman exhibit but from a slightly closer perspective and names that painting Landscape.

This pastel, In New England, could be near the same scene as either one of these paintings and Woodward gave it another name because it is a chalk drawing exhibiting at the Boston Art Club. See the excerpt below along with the two images of An Old Farm and Landscape...

This is an excerpt from an letter where RSW specifically mentions In New England:

"...a New England farm scene among blue hills and bright sunlight - 'In New England' by
name, which now hangs in exhibition at the Boston Art Club."

An Old Farm, 1920

Landscape, 1926