Featured Artwork: Unnamed: Barnyard Blanket

None. This painting is unnamed and unsigned.

My Winter Shelf, 1925

This painting comes to us from its owner. It is a rare scene of Woodward's view from his Hiram studio corner window, sans the window. In fact, if you view look at the picture of My Winter Shelf to the right you can see outside the corner window a near exact scene. This painting is more straight on to the barn suggesting Woodward was either postioned in the corner or outside the corner window.

The painting is a mix of styles. It holds the elements of Woodward's early work of a moderate impasto application of pigment in an impressionistic style. However, it also holds elements of the luminous use of opalescent light radiating the barn. If we were to be forced to guess, we would say this painting is closer to 1925 than 1932.

The heavy craquelure in the painting supports this premise. It indicates Woodward is still trying to work out the correct ingredients of what he uses to preserve the pigments. Many of Woodward's earlier paintings, particularly from the period between 1924 and 1930, exhibit very similar vertical craquelure.

Below is a side by side view of this painting along side another painting of the barn, When the Sun Rides Low. What is great about this combination is theat it give you a good idea of the view Woodward had, looking east, from his studio.

Unnamed: Barnyard Blanket

When the Sun Rides Low, 1932