Featured Artwork: Mount Greylock

Greylock in Autumn, c. 1934
Another pastel painting of Mt. Greylock made after
the 1934 So. Vermont Artist Association exhibit and
thus after the pastel by the name of this webpage.

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

Editor's Note:

Mount Greylock was a popular subject for Woodward early in his career. There are a number of paintings we have names for but not much else. He would return to it occasionally in the 1930s, and we can offer you another pastel painting made shortly after the names of this art work page.⮞

There is also, Mount Greylock in December made a couple years prior, as well as Greylock Over Adams.

Syndicated column, Art Chat,
February, 1934, Source Unknown.

Syndicated column, Art Chat, by Anna W. Olmsted:

"...His pastel, Mt. Greylock, shown in the Manchester exhibition summer before last, and praised by Royal Cortissoz, Dean of American art critics, as the outstanding picture of the exhibition, has been bought, we are interested to hear, by Lincoln Isham, great grandson of Abraham Lincoln...."

⮜ Editor's Notes:

The clipping to the left is most likely from the Syracuse Post Star newspaper but we cannot say for' certain. Anna Olmsted is the Director of the then Syracuse Museum of Fine Art, now known as the Everett Museum of Fine Art. The museum is cited as this country's first museum devoted solely to American Art. Woodward exhibited there twice that we know of and Olmsted was a fan. Her column, "Art Chat" was syndicated nationally and she mentioned Woodward a number of times in her column throughout the 1930s.

Unfortunately, we cannot find the article written by Royal Cortizzos of the New York Herald newspaper regarding this artwork. We have the critic's main article on the SVAA event but we have learned that Mr. Cortizzos often wrote more than one review of the show-- sort of like an opening and closing remarks package. Cortissoz was a fan of the event and covered it annually.