Robert Strong Woodward - Painter of New England Scenes - May Woods

 

 

 


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 MAY WOODS

25 X 30
Painted on Charlemont Road on the hill leading down into the village of Buckland Center, Mass.

Diary Comments:
Painted before 1929.  This was one of several I made for Mrs. Wm. H. Moore when she agreed to own one of my
paintings, although she eventually bought Road Guardians from Conway Road.   Painted on Town Farm Hill in
Buckland just below old town farm.   Upright."


Comments on the back of a sepia print:
"Bright yellow-green, with dark bronzy-green for hemlocks, and foreground, rose-color."

"Exhibited at  the Myles Standish Galleries, Boston, Mass."

Notes:Boston Globe, May, 1929, by A. J. Philpott.
"....May Woods
is charming in its color and luminosity--and in its whole character."

In 2007 this painting underwent restoration at Williamstown and now hangs in a local home.

 

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