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Time Period:
Prior to 1944

Location:
Unknown

Medium:
Chalk Drawing

Type:
Landscape

Category:
Barns, Keach Gallery

Size:
22 x 29

Exhibited:
Myles Standish Gallery, 1944

Purchased:
Unknown

Provenance:
NA

Noteworthy:

The pastel hung along with an "all-star" roster of many of Woodward's favorite and most loved paintings as a farewell finale in tribute to the Myles Standish Hotel which will close soon after to become the first ever dormitory for the once commuter-only school, Boston University.

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RSW's Diary Comments


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



Additional Notes


The image to the right is a summer scene of Woodward's favorite and most painted subject on the Keach Farm property. He called it the "the little red barn," and he painted it as a primary subject at least three time and it was the backdrop to a series of paintings featuring the Greening (Apple) tree on the other side of the driveway that cuts through the center of the farm... pretty much right next to where Woodward sat to make Summer Barns.

The 'barn" itself is not just one barn. It is a group of individual three barns at the top of and rear of a number of buildings also called barns by Woodward in the painting, The Three Barns, which also just so happen to exhibit at the same 1944 Myles Standish show.



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