Quick Reference
Prior to 1931
Keach Farm
Chalk Drawing
Landscape
Keach, Barns
22 x 29
Pynchon Galleries, 1929
Smith College, 1931
Southern Vermont Artist, 1931
Mount Holyoke College, 1931
New York Watercolor Club, 1932
Deerfield Academy, 1932
Unknown
NA
Related Links
- See also the Keach Gallery to view related pieces.
- See also the Barns Gallery to view related pieces.
- See also The Last of Winter for a related piece.
- See also the Exhibition List for other Exhibits.
- Checkout more Articles regarding Woodward.
- Read the Scrapbook story about the Pynchon Gallery Exhibition, 1926 for more.
Artwork Mentioned
- God's Quiet Acre
- Clouds In May
- From The Heights
- The Sea Of Hills, Chalk
- The Genial Old House, Chalk
- December Farm; A Winter Sketch
- Mount Peru in Summer
- The Young Tree And The Old House
- Aeolus: Home Of The Winds, 1929
- From The Pasture Top
- A High and Rocky Mowing
- The Hopper at Greylock
- The Chimney Shadow
- Warped Roofs
Featured Artwork: The Twin Barns
RSW's Diary Comments
"Worked on the original oil painting for 20 days, April 5 to 25, 1932."
Additional Notes
There is an oil painting of this same scene and having the same title painted in 1932.
This chalk drawing is privately owned.
Exhibition in Pynchon Art Galleries, Springfield, Mass., by Jeannette C. Matthews
"The Twin Barns is a charming study in green slope, near green sky and dark buildings, friendly, inviting old barns they are."
To the Right:
An article clipping from the New Hamphire Transcript regarding RSW's exhibition at the Deerfield Academy (1932)"Twin Barns" is not mentioned specifically but was one of the 10 'crayon drawing' noted (highlighted) at the end of the article.
Below: Springfield Republican, 1929, by Jeanette C. Matthews
The comment on this chalk drawing, from RSW's exhibition at Pynchon Galleries (1929), can be seen in this newspaper clipping shown below. To see a full view of the article, simply chick on it.
Regarding the
Chalk Drawings
The following is an excerpt from, "An Artist of his Time", a lecture, hosted by the Friends of RSW, on RSW by Peter Trippi, editor-in-chief, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, which also did a feature article on RSW. CLICK HERE to view the Article
"...the pastel works - they're just fantastic. And I'm afraid that they photograph very well but you don't really appreciate the difficulty of making them until you see them up close. That as you know with pastel, you have to be very very good to make it work, because it hard to correct a mistake. With oil paint it's much easier to cover over the error. But these are really really spectacular."