Additional Notes

The agreement with White & Wyckoff Co. for
rights to the image of Winter Dignity, to be used in
their under the name Snow Symphony

Editor's Note:

The name "Snow Symphony" is the name given to this image of Winter Dignity for the purpose of being made into a Christmas card. There are a number of reasons Woodward decided to do this but none moreso than out of respect for poet Robert Frost. Frost returned Winter Dignity to Woodward in exchange for Passing New England. The poet's reason was that he was so bereft after his wife's death that Winter Dignity was a constant reminder of her because it was her favorite painting. Woodward was not pleased with the swap and said so nine years later in his diary comments on Winter Dignity. Still, he would not want Frost to come across or learn that his wife's most loved painting was now a greeting card.

It is important to note a couple of things. The first is that this contract is made in the same year Woodward wrote his entry for Winter Dignity in his painting diary. He states as much. The second is that just short of two years later, in May of 1949, he spends the day in his studio repairing the painting which is odd to us because the image above shows no signs of the deterioration he describes in his personal diary and we believe the painting would not have been chosen otherwise. So what happened is a mystery. If you examine and compare this card image with how the painting appears today, you can visibly see the difference.

The whole card, both side and four folds in order, back cover, front cover, left copy, and right copy.

We have to ask whether the painting' location, "Vermont" is subterfuge by Woodward or if it is an error
by the printer? If it is a mistake, we have to ask how this can be the printer is a Holyoke company?
EVERYTHING ELSE IS CORRECT.