"...the pastel works - they're just fantastic. And I'm afraid that they photograph very well but you don't really appreciate the difficulty of making them until you see them up close. That as you know with pastel, you have to be very very good to make it work, because it hard to correct a mistake. With oil paint it's much easier to cover over the error. But these are really really spectacular."
Woodward never kept an official ledger of his remarkable chalk drawings much to our chagrin. He never gave them equal footing to that of his oil paintings.
For Woodward, it seemed as if he did them for the pure enjoyment of drawing, his first love.
However, as time has passed they are as equally admired
and coveted by many for their extraordinary beauty and skill and in many cases have out-paced in value their sibling oils.
This chalk drawing is privately owned.
It is believed this is the chalk drawing referred to as "Peru Mountain" in the article below.
The Pynchon Gallery Exhibition is one of the few
exhibitions that featured Woodward's "Crayon Drawings." As many as 13 were reported to be exhibited and this website is not aware of
any exhibit that featured more than this number. The Deerfield Academy, 1932 Exhibition featured 10
drawings.