Featured Artwork: October Maples

October Flame, 1932

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

Editor's Note:

From the name and the description below given by Ernest Bagg this scene is wooded area of maple trees in their yellow transition of foliage. Maple trees are unique in that they change in all three fall colors, yellow, orange, and red.

To the right ⮞ is October Flame, a painting of Woodward's much admired maple tree in Mrs. Griswold's pasture in all the colors mentioned. You can also check out Golden Month (1932), for golden views below ⮟.

Springfield Union, May 15, 1922
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"... October Maples is an especially golden picture of a shaded sward needing only the Lincoln green uniforms of Robin Hood and his merry men to give it fitting animation ..." Springfield Union, May 15, 1922 by Ernest Newton Bagg

Golden Month, 1932

One last note, yellow is usually the first color of most trees and begins in late September, early October.