Quick Reference

Time Period:
Drawn in 1934.

Location:
The Warfield Barn
Charlemont Center

Medium:
Pastel on Board

Type:
Landscape

Category:
Barns, Farms

Size:
22" x 29"

Exhibited:
Southern Vermont AA, 1934

Purchased:
Unknown

Provenance:
NA

Noteworthy:

Originally the subject matter was a chalk drawing and a painting was made from that. RSW was never fully satisfied with the original painting made before the fire of 1934. The pastel sold for its only exhibit and a new oil was made in 1940 with its original being destroyed.

Featured Artwork: New England Castle

This picture above is of Farmer's Castle. There is no known image of this chalk drawing to date.

RSW's Diary Comments

Diary Comments from Farmer's Castle:

"Painted in 1940. Warfield's barn and silo (since torn down) out of Charlemont. Made a chalk of this just before my fire (1934) which immediately sold at Manchester. Before sending the chalk, made a painting from it, but it was never satisfactory to me. Loving the subject matter and the silo having been destroyed so I couldn't go back to paint I finally made, in the winter of 1940, this successful 27 x 30, then destroyed the earlier canvas from which I copied it."

Additional Notes

Our manipulation of Farmer's Castle to the same aspect
ratio (rectangular) as a 22" x 29" chalk drawing.

The image to the right is manipulated to take the more rectangular shape of a common chalk drawing size. Basically, we stretched it wider and squished its height and yes it is hard to tell the difference. The same could be said of several other oil-chalk pairs. Woodward always seemed to make them appear almost identical. In fact, visit the Late Summer gallery to see an example of an oil and pastel side by side...