RSW's Diary Comments

A Winter Afternoon, oil, sepia print
This sepia print is all we have of this oil painting.

• Woodward did not keep records of the pastels he called "chalk drawings."

Excerpt from A Winter Afternoon, Oil, regarding this chalk drawing...

"...At the time I made the new painting I also made a chalk drawing of the same thing which was bought by Carl Nilman of Buckland, whose farm in Hog Hollow is the subject matter..."

Editor's Note:

A couple points to make here... First, is that this is Woodward's grandparents' former home and so it was special to him. The second is that while the two paintings are of the same scene, note the different perspectives. Woodward's standard can-vas sizes that are comparable to the pastel is 25" x 30". Very slight yet noticeable, the aspect ratio differences are 1.2 for the oils, and 1.3 for the pastels.

This drawing was made from the oil painting A Winter Afternoon which was made from an earlier (possibly 1919), but technically imperfect, painting Woodward would eventually destroy.

This chalk drawing is owned by the Buckland Historical Society in Buckland, MA. The drawing can be seen, on display, in it's Upper Street location.

A close up of the drawing name in the lower left corner

White Winter is another oil painting of the same house from a different vantage point.

The house in this drawing is the Nilman House which was also once owned by RSW's great, great grandfather Spencer Woodward. For more information about this house, please CLICK HERE.