Featured Artwork: New England Roofs

Crazy Roofs

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

Editor's Note:

From the description in the article below, we suspect that this drawing is similar in subject to another pastel Woodward made around the same time (from the same farm). This specific times in his career, Woodward had as many as 80 pieces of art circulating between New York and Boston. The first six months of 1931 are perhaps his busiest following the 1930 Gold medal honor he received at the Boston's 300th (Tercentennial) Celebration exhibit.

Boston Post, Feb., 1931

Boston Post, Feb., 1931

"....Again in New England Roofs there is the amusing long, uneven line of varied shapes and heights ranging from the tiny farmhouse with the omnipresent ell, along through woodshed, tool houses and barns attached. "