Featured Artwork: November Sun

In the November Sun, 1929

• There is no entry for this painting in the painting diary.

Editor's Note:

We see the name of this unknown subject and immediately go to the pastel to the right, In the November Sun ⮞

Adding to this urge is the other paintings it hung with in the Hampshire Bookshop: High on the Hill (oil), Drying Nets; T Wharf (pastel), Mr. Franklin's House (pastel), and Roscoe Temple's Sugar House (pastel). There is something unique and interesting about each one of them and so we can't help linking the painting of this page to another unique and interesting piece as a theme.

Additionally, November Sun is listed as an upright. Too many coincidences to ignore.

Here we want to cover what makes each of the above paintings unique:

♦ High on the Hill -- a solo barn in Cummington, MA, is rare because just one other painting (a
   pastel) was made from the same town.
♦ Drying Nets; T Wharf; -- made from the Boston waterfront. It is the only one of its kind. Made
   possible when RSW swapped homes with his cousin Florence for a couple weeks in 1930.
♦ Mr. Franklin's House -- small house surrounded by glacial erratic stones in New Hampshire. It is
   rare, not because of the house, but that it is the only known house in New Hampshire.
♦ Roscoe Temple's Sugar House -- the only time RSW used a person's full name in a title. Also,
   at the time, sugar houses were a focus of his work.

Our linking this painting to In the November Sun which is also a unique artwork for Woodward with the silo having the scaffold around it. There is only one one painting like is and the scaffold is for the construction of the silo. In the November Sun appears as if it is being held together by the framing.

What does this mean? We are not sure but it feels like this may have been a favor for someone Woodward cared about. Like he wanted to be unique and special.