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."

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.