Featured Artwork: Snow Pattern

Through Winter Pines

• There is no entry for this painting in the painting diary. There are just a handful of diary entries for paintings made before the 1922 Redgate Studio fire. Woodward did not begin to compile a diary until the 1940s at the suggestion of Dr. Mark and encouraged by his friend F. Earl Williams.

Editor's Note:

This painting was one of seven to hang at Woodward's Alma mater, the Seventh Annual Art Exhibit hosted by the Bradley Polytechnic Institute in Peoria, IL. He received his high diploma from them in 1904, won a scholarship to study another year, post-grad, as a teaching assistant in Literature. The school would earn its charter as a college in the 1920s and today is known as Bradley University. You can visit the exhibit page by clicking here, Bradley Polytechnic Institute, 1919.

Afternoon Shadows

We do not know the subject of this painting but from its ⮝ name, we wonder, if this is wooded path with sleigh tracks making a "pattern." Woodward liked to name his paintings poetically and that feels like something he would find poetic to name snow pattern.

⮜ It could also be more simple, like a path with no tracks but the "pattern" the trees cast in shadows on it like the painting to the left.

RSW re-typed this critique