RSW's Diary Comments

• Woodward did not keep records of the pastels he called "chalk drawings." Fortunately, we have a painting diary entry for its sibling oil.

Painting Diary Entry for Spring Comes Again, oil:

Spring Comes Again, oil, sepia image

"Painted in May 1939. A painting of the rear of the Barber Place (owned by Miss Anderson) over on a back road which runs off the road going from Dennison Mills on Green River to Halifax, in the town of Colrain near the Vermont line. Sold, Nov., 1944, to Mrs. Paul Moore 'Hollow Hill Farm', Convent Station, New Jersey."

Comments on the back of a sepia print:

"Old New England farm house built in Revolutionary days. Paint red at back with blinds, apple green, kitchen ell door yellow ochre. Blue and violet mountain view at left, maples in bloom with pale yellow film of color."

Passing New England, c. 1933

This subject Woodward found high up in Colrain, MA, near the Vermont line just across from Halifax, VT is not the only subject he made from this area. The painting once own by Robert Frost, Passing New England is another.