The Austin Riggs Foundation in Stockbridge (MA), owns a 36 x 42 of a Buckand brook - painted down in Clock Hollow - one of my early canvases.
This was one of the two paintings which were saved from the Redgate fire.
Woodward was preparing for a large 'one-man show' at Macbeth Galleries in NYC when tragedy the struck. Nearly 50 paintings were destroyed
just days before they were about to be shipped.
The Austin Riggs Foundation just so happens to be a pychiatric facility that Woodward's
close friend Dr. Lawrence Lunt once worked and it is believed that he may be the link between
Woodward and the Foundation.
Lunt first met Woodward while a student at Harvard through his connection to Woodward patron Mary
"Minnie" Eliot of Boston. Eliot is credited with spearheading the fundraising campaign to bring Woodward from Los Angeles, CA, to Boston to attend
the Museum of Fine School to study art.
Lunt is an important person in Woodward's life. It is believed that he couseled Woodward from
time to time and was a huge supporter of his work. But also, in a testemonial about Woodward to be shared ten years after his death, Lunt shares his
thoughts on the man and artist he called friend. Without Lunt we would not know how Woodward was critically injured in his parent's apartment in LA
following a weekend camping trip. CLICK HERE to read the story of Woodward's tragic accident
on Labor Day, 1906.
The Austin Riggs Foundation still exist in Stockbridge, MA.