Featured Artwork: In The Hills

Woodward did not keep records of his pastel paintings he called chalk drawings.

The Hills, 1937-'38

This pastel painting (Woodward called them chalk drawing) could just about be anything. However, since it appears at the final and last Myles Standish Hotel Gallery exhibition we are sure it was a favorite subject of his. Only this doesn't help us at guessing what that could possibly be... it could be Heath, Leyden, Cummington, etc. Heck, his favorite hills were the Buckland Hills which often appeared in the distance of his Heath paintings!

This pastel painting could really be anything, however, we are still offering you a view of a painting Woodward made from right under the Beech Tree and its simple name lends us to wonder. Furthermore, we know there is a chalk drawing of the same scene. The newspaper article describing it failed to name it.