RSW's Diary Comments

"Painted November 1935. Painting of November road edged with rows of maples and stone wall; side road running by the Halifax, Vt. House. Bought by Mrs. Wm. H. Moore's sister in 1937 from among a number I sent down to New York (by Fabian in my car) for Mrs. Moore to see. Mrs. Moore's sister is Mrs. Lora J. Knight, Santa Barbara, California."

Comments on the back of a sepia print:

"Parallel rows as inspirations. Pale blue sky, russet yellow and tawny ground, green and gray walls and trees. Owned by Mrs. Lora J. Knight, Santa Barbara, California."

Unfinished #6
As beautiful as it is, you can see that the normal
details of a Woodward painting are not present.
Oh, and the sky is not filled in at all on the left.

There is another painting linked to a "road" painting in Halifax named On The Road to Halifax, Vermont. We do not have a picture of that art work so we cannot say for sure if it is the same subject because we also have an unfinished canvas of a dirt road somewhere in Heath, MA, or on the line of Halifax, VT, according to Dr. Mark ⮞

For those of you that do not know, Mrs. Ada Small Moore is Woodward's patron-saint. She established a trust that would provide the money to pay for the he needed and an attendant to lift and carry him... and drive him as well. She was a strong advocate for the artist among her peers. She had two sisters in California, both in the Santa Barbara area and they both owned paintings. Ada bought, as a gift, Winter Pool for the other sister.