Featured Artwork: On a Mountain Farm

Comments from, From a Mountain Farm:

"Painted in 1936. The present 'Gandy' place over at Dodge Corners in Hawley. Widely exhibited. Once at Springfield Museum in exhibition of noted Americana called Future Forefathers, in 1939. Bought in 1945 by Mrs. Roger R. Smith of 75 Elm Street, Gardner, Massachusetts."

From a Mountain Farm

Below are two related works of art. On the left is a 27 x 30 version once owned by Woodward friend F. Earl Williams and the other is most likely the sketch which RSW used to make the paintings.

A Mountain Farm

From a Mountain Farm Sketch

It is not uncommon for Woodward to make both an oil painting and chalk drawing of a well liked scene. Only we suspect this chalk was made years after the oil.

We believe the scene is from Dodge Corner Road in Hawley, MA looking east toward Buckland (the neighboring town) and is another perspective of the hilly landscape surrounding Buckland and featuring Puriton Hill that is also seen from Heath looking south in When Spring Comes and Unnamed: Above the Winter Hills . Courage and Peace is from high in Buckland on Orcutt Hill, also looking east.