RSW's Diary Comments

Unfortunately, Woodward did not keep a diary of his pastel paintings, perhaps because there were too many to recall. The artist did not begin to assemble his oil paintings into a diary until the early 1940s. Woodward made as many a hundred or so chalk drawing (what he called them) between 1927 and early 1929.

We do not think is warrants its own gallery but notice to the left all of the other chimney-featured paintings list in the Related Links section. Each one of them can be found in either our Late Summer gallery or in the In November gallery. Hmm.

This is a chalk drawing of the same subject as The Proud Elm. It is the David Dickinson House, 1783, in Old Deerfield, Mass. See the letter below for more...