Quick Reference

Time Period:
c. 1922

Location:
Redgate Studio

Medium:
Oil on Canvas

Type:
Landscape

Category:
Brooks, Ponds, Rivers

Size:
25 x 30, Upright

Exhibited:
Unknown

Purchased:
Unknown

Provenance:
N/A

Noteworthy:

This painting has a sibling that is the same scene with a slightly different color scheme, named, Evening Mists. However, this painting also has a 'step-sibling' in the form of a wide 24 x 36 oil, named, The Tranquil Hour.

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Additional Notes


This painting came to us by way of its current owner (Jan. 2017). The name on the back stretcher was simply Tranquil hour. It is near identical in composition and content to Evening Mists with the only visible difference being hue and color.


Tranquil Hour
A Tranquil Hour, c. 1922

This quintessential Redgate painting is one of four paintings with the same pond and winter scene. However, the paintings vary between portrait and landscape perspectives. They were all painted at a time when this practice was common for Woodward, with exception to Evening Mists which was repainted in 1945 from an earlier version and promptly destroying it . He often made multiple versions of paintings that were either successful in selling quickly or held a particular sentimental value to him. After the 1930s, it was rare for Woodward to make multiple versions of a painting unless by request or commission.


To the right is the painting Evening Woodland which shows the landscape version of the same scene and subject. There is another canvas named Woodland Mystery, which is ever so slightly different.

We cannot explain why Woodward went back to the location to paint these serenely peaceful, zen-like, motifs but perhaps their description is self explanatory. He would re-visit the subject again between 1937 and 1945 by pulling several unsatisfactory paintings from the early 1920s, repainting them and destroying the originals. Meaning there was ANOTHER version the artist made Evening Mist from, then destroyed.