Featured Artwork: Unnamed: The Goodnow Pasture

None. This painting is signed in the lower right corner of the canvas, however, its name is unknown. For more see the Additional Notes section below.

Diary Comments from An October Pasture:

"Painted in 1936. From Leon Goodnow's pasture at the Mill Yard (the old Purinton homestead farm). Exhibited generally about the country. Painted from the pasture. A smaller 25 x 30 (In an Autumn Pasture) was made in the studio from this canvas."

In an Autumn Pasture, 1939

This painting is signed but its name is unknown. When it was framed a protective backing was secured to the verso of the frame hiding where RSW would have most likely written its name on the stretcher. The owners, understandably, do not want to remove the backing. It is also signed using a red "R" and a red "S", something Woodward only did once that we know of in the early twenties. Initially it baffled us until we realized that RSW had to because the stone he is signing his name by is too dark and has black shadows.


There are as many as 3 other versions of the same scene. We have images of two of them, one a low resolution color image, In an Autumn Pasture, to the right, and a sepia print of, An October Pasture, below right.

An October Pasture, 1936, sepia print

As far as we know, this is the only version of this scene without the Holsteins. Since he painted what we assume was his first version of this scene is the 1936, An October Pasture, because he wrote his diary comment one that version, briefly mentioning the other painting, In an Autumn Pasture which he . Inexplicably, here is no mention of this painting.