RSW's Diary Comments

"About 1925. Painted from Johnson's just beyond North River Bridge. Bought by Roswell C. Tripp formerly of Rye, N. Y., now of ... soon after I knew them."

Boston Globe, December 23, 1926

To the Right: Boston Globe, 1926 by A. J. Philpott

"... is another great picture in which the sky plays an important part."

This painting was given as the first payment to purchase the Heath pasture in 1938. It would take RSW and his long-time attendant/handiman Fabian Stone two years to build the Heath Pasture Studio from re-claimed wood of a town barn set for demolition.

Springfield Republican, 1926

RSW along side the Heath Studio.
Photo by F. Earl Wiiliams