Quick Reference

Time Period:
Painted in summer 1941.

Location:
Putney, VT

Medium:
Oil on Canvas

Type:
Landscape

Category:
Brooks, Ponds, Rivers

Size:
25 X 30

Exhibited:
Unknown

Purchased:
Unknown

Provenance:
N/A

Noteworthy:

This is one of the only paintings RSW did of the Connecticut River, not counting its compainion chalk, Above the Connecticut

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Featured Artwork: The River Curve

RSW's Diary Comments

A screen capture from Google Earth showing the bend
in the river today. The view is now blocked by I-91 and trees.

"Painted in summer 1941. Painted in the studio from a chalk drawing of the same scene before the drawing went to Northfield Seminary as a gift from the class of 1891. The original drawing was made from the back yard (overlooking the Connecticut River) of Bertha Davenport's Red Farm House, on the Brattleboro-Bellows Falls Road above Putney, Vermont. Sold July, 1945, to a private owner."


Additional Notes

The name and price on the back of the stretcher
The name and price on the back of the stretcher

This painting is now privately owned.


See also Above the Connecticut a chalk drawing of the same subject.


This is one of the only paintings RSW did of the Connecticut River. This portion of the river acts as a natural border between Vermont and New Hampshire.