[IMAGE, Top right]: Harold Walter Grieve Bookplate
[IMAGE, Bottom of page]: Late Sugaring, oil.
[IMAGE CAPTION]: Above, a book plate design c. 1937. Right, Late Sugaring, oil.

...wide variation and contrast of color and thickness of pain which characterized his early canvases. With the years came a softening of contrast and a greater precision in all his painting. This is evident in "At Peace", a canvas of a stately bare maple on a bank fringed with other large tree. The fine texture of the last stretching twigs gives the painting a lacy quality. As his style developed, his strokes became shorter, the range of greens blended, and as I became more sensitive to the color change of filtered sunlight. The cycle of the seasons was caught in the many paintings of the much loved beech tree near his Heath studio.

The intensity of feeling for his composition together with his masterful use of color gave his paintings of house and barn great merit. Woodward was so fond of his barn paintings that at one time he hopes to devote an entire show to them. On occasion he would hide all these canvases in the hope that customers would buy some of his other work. However, the barn paintings were so popular that he was never able to accumulate enough for show.

The rough texture of the now old boards on his barns and houses sing of New England. He always painted them just as he saw them, complete with weathering stains in shadows. He often disobeyed all the rules of composition by placing his buildings in the...