Featured Artwork: In the Old Barn

None.

New Hay

There are at least seven known "inside the barn" pieces of artwork and they are as follows:

• In the Old Barn, pastel, 1921
• Old Rafters, oil, 1924
• New Hay, oil, 1925 ✽
• Dusty Rafters, oil, 1929 ✽
• In Keach's Barn, pastel, 1931
• Inside the Barn, oil, 1942
• Inside the Old Barn, ???, ????

Artwork with an image is noted with an asterisk *

Editor's Note:

While we only have two pictures of the seven known paintings listed above. They are all very likely to be a similar subject and more likely to be the little red barn on the Keach farm. The Keach Farm was the artist's most studied New England farm.

This pastel (Woodward called chalk drawings) is the first known painting of this particular subject.

The Little Red Barn

The barn is the Keach's "Little Red Barn" which happens to be one of the artist's favorite subjects- inside and out. The barn appears, one way or another, in nineteen various paintings as the backdrop of several other subjects, such as the farmyard out side of it, or the Greening apple tree just beyond it, or the pasture behind it. Then there is the painting to the left where it is the featured subject and the paintings Summer Barns and Twin Barns which it shares the limelight with its attached sibling.