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Time Period:
Prior to 1925

Location:
Unknown

Medium:
Oil on Canvas

Type:
Landscape


Size:
25 x 30

Exhibited:
NA

Purchased:
Unknown

Provenance:
NA

Noteworthy:

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.

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Featured Artwork: Unnamed: Haying Time in New England

Diary Comments

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


Additional Notes

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.


This painting's subject is so unique for Woodward. It is not the haying time theme, or the dramatic sky. It is the oxen working in the field. We know the picture could be better. We are working on getting a better one and so maybe you cannot see that there are two oxen among the rolls of hay scattered throughout the field. We do not know of any other piece of work showing livestock working. In most cases, Woodward portrays people and livestock at rest or in a natural state.

The painting is also impressionistic with nothing painted in too great a detail, another rarity. We could not help noticing how similar in style it is painted to that of another signed but unknown titled painting, Unnamed: Drama Over Greylock. We believe the two paintings were painted around the same time because they hold similar tones and brush applications dating this somewhere around 1920 thru and prior to 1925.


We wish we knew the location. We cannot help wondering if maybe this is a painting of one of the farms up Avery Road in Buckland near the Hawley and Charlemont lines. We do not think it is the Avery Farm because the direction does not fit. Yet still, there is the Wilder Farm across the road looking northwest towards Charlemont and the Deerfield River and of course farther up the hill is the Keach farm Woodward started visiting around this time period painting numerous works of their barns, outbuildings and even interiors of their home. The thing is, we do not know what the "right side" of the farm looks like because we have no examples of work. It leads us to ask, what is on the other side of Mrs. Keach's front porch? Is it this hay field?

What is the perspective from the front corner of Mrs. Keach's porch looking down the hill?