RSW's Diary Comments

"Painted about 1938. Made of Harrison Keach's pasture from back of his house."

Comments on the back of a sepia print:

"(I feel this would be an effective companion with the barn picture you have.) The reproduction lacks the Spring atmosphere and sparkle of the painting. This is really a portrait of a melting snow-drift on the hillside. The evergreens are dark bluish-greens similar in color to the pines in your barn picture. The background hill in delicate Spring violet tones. Sky is April-blue with white clouds, more brilliant and sunlit than photograph indicates. Foreground tawny, yellowish green, but NOT giving the effect of a green canvas."

Unfortunately, we do not know who Woodward was addressing when he suggested on the back of the sepia print that this painting would make "an effective companion with the barn picture you have." Without that information we can also not tell you what barn he is referring to other than to speculate that it is a barn on the Keach property.