RSW's Diary Comments

Mount Equinox in Shadow, 1935
Not a Frelinghuysen painting but selected here be-
cause the painting above shows the spot where RSW
most likely painted this piece! Can you find it?

Woodward did not keep records of his pastel paintings he called chalk drawings.

Editor's Note:

This pastel painting image came to us from its current owner and established the provenance that leads back to Woodward's best customer, Adaline Havemeyer Frelinghuysen. The number of paintings Adaline purchased from the artist grows every year. In 2010, it was fifteen; today its over forty and growing. Adaline bought most of her paintings from the Southern Vermont Artist Association (SVAA) situated in Manchester, Vermont, where her and her family summered every year. Since her primary residence was Morristown, NJ, one could say she was a mountain person rather than a beach goer.

This chalk drawing does not appear in any of the SVAA exhibition programs we have in our collection. However, our records only cover 1935 thru 1952. We believe this is because the records prior to those years were destroyed in Woodward's 1934, Hiram Woodward Studio Fire. For more, continue below...

Silver Sky Over EquinoxC

To the left, we have another Mount Equinox painting from the west of Manchester. Most of the Mount Equinox paintings were made for the annual SVAA event held every year (except 1943, '44 and '45 for WWII) the week leading up to Labor Day weekend.

Not all of Adaline's paintings were purchased, one, for herself, and two, from the SVAA. Both she and her husband Peter would sometimes write Woodward privately to request a particular subject as a gift. Therefore, we cannot even estimate a year for this painting or find a year it hung at an exhibit. It could be one of those specially requested paintings. We have not counted how many Mt. Equinox paintings linked to Adaline, nut here are a couple more below...

Equinox In August, 1938

On the Edge of the Pond