Featured Artwork: Northfield Valley (possibly the same canvas as Spring Drifts)

Spring Drifts Sepia

None under this name, however, it maybe listed under another name.

Editor's Note:

This is one of those mysteries we do not know if we will ever sort out. As wonderful as Woodward was in many ways, offering clear details was not one of them, especially for his painting diary which he did not begin to compile until the early 1940s and through his retirement in the early 1950s. Not only did he write it mostly from memory but he did not use any of his many scrapbooks and ledgers to confirm his recall.

Worse than that, for a man who paid great attention to the details, he did not give them. We have numerous examples of him leaving out any kind of explanation, such as, an owner changing a painting he gave a generic name. Or maybe, he forgot that he called it, "Northfield Valley" in a notebook giving Ms. Wilson the option of naming it herself and that is the name he remembered and this painting name was just simply a placeholder...

It is possible that this painting was later renamed Spring Drifts by Ms. Wilson herself.

Comments in a notebook by RSW:

"Sold in May of 1933 to Miss Myra Wilson, Principal of Northfield Seminary for $300.00"