[IMAGE, top of page]: A Classroom full of students
[IMAGE CAPTION]: McKinley School, Canton, Ohio, May 1898. Woodward is the third back in the right hand row.

[IMAGE, lower right]: Woodward as a child
[IMAGE CAPTION]: Courtesy of Mrs. Florence Haeberle. Woodward about seven years old

...bling's in a car which had been given to him by Mrs. William Moore of Pride Crossing, Massachusetts, his benefactor us for many years, who admired his courage as well as his talent. The artist chose a large open Packard as there was room enough to enable him to paint from the back seat. In the car, paints and brushes were laid out on the seat while the canvas was propped up against the special windshield on an extemporized easel made of a board fitting from door to door. On one of his ramblings he spotted a weathered old barn in the back of the field. The barn was crumbling, it's rough-shingled roof had nearly fallen through, but to Woodward the barn and the surrounding fields were part of the essence of New England. He asked the farmer who owned it whether he might return another day to paint the picture. The owner was delighted to have the artist make such a request and gladly consented. When Woodward returned several days later the decrepit old barn was newly painted. Unhappily he left without making his picture, and the mystified farmer never understood why the artist had suddenly lost interest.

During Woodward's career, 1912 to 1957, he worked in five studios, two of which were used less frequently than others. Three times during those years a...