Featured Artwork: Evening Woodland

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A cropped version of Evening Mists, 1945

Between 1937 and 1945 RSW re-painted a series of 14 to 20 year old Redgate paintings he had stored because he was never really satisfied with them. We imagine this is one of those paintings. The originals were destroyed.

These paintings are a real treat for us because they show how RSW went from a primarily atmospheric impressionism style to a more luminant realism.

This painting is related to Evening Mists, in that, it is bascially the same water scene but Evening Mists is an upright portrait of the trees.

For a similar painting from the Redgate time period, see The Tranquil Hour, 1923, and note the vast difference in the expression of light.

The Tranquil Hour, 1923

Visit the Quintessential Redgate gallery for other examples of paintings Woodward made from the stoops, doors, and windows of the woods behind his first studio.

They have a clearly mystical feel to them.