Quick Reference
Time Period:
Drawn in 1934.
Drawn in 1934.
Location:
The Warfield Barn
Charlemont Center
The Warfield Barn
Charlemont Center
Medium:
Chalk Drawing
Chalk Drawing
Type:
Landscape
Landscape
Category:
Barns, Farms
Barns, Farms
Size:
Unknown
Unknown
Exhibited:
Manchester
Manchester
Purchased:
Unknown
Unknown
Provenance:
NA
NA
Noteworthy:
Originally the subject matter was a chalk drawing and a painting was made from that. RSW was never fully
satisfied with the orginal painting made before the fire of 1934.
Featured Artwork: New England Castle
This picture is of Famer's Castle. There is no known image of this chalk drawing to date.
RSW's Diary Comments
Diary Comments from Farmer's Castle:
"Painted in 1940. Warfield's barn and silo (since torn down) out of Charlemont. Made a chalk of this just before my fire (1934) which immediately sold at Manchester. Before sending the chalk, made a painting from it, but it was never satisfactory to me. Loving the subject matter and the silo having been destroyed so I couldn't go back to paint I finally made, in the winter of 1940, this successful 27 x 30, then destroyed the earlier canvas from which I copied it."
Additional Notes
Exhibited and sold from the 1934 Southern Vermont Artist Association, Inc. annual exhibition.