Featured Artwork: Evening Glow

Woodward's Redgate Studio. You can see
from this picture just how close the woods were
to the studio from which he painted these scenes.

"Painted in 1923. This painting of an evening stream in sunset glow I made soon after Redgate burned and sold to Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Deneque of Washington, D. C. and Manchester, Mass. ( Mr. Deneque is now dead.)"

Editor's Note:

Many of Woodward's pre-1922 paintings were dusk-time, wooded interior scenes made from the doors and windows of his first studio, Redgate. After the devastating fire than destroyed Redgate. The artist, perhaps as part of his grieving process, returned to the location to continue painting his much-loved "Winter Evening Stream" paintings (WES for short). By 1928, these moody atmospheric paintings fell out of favor with one exception. In 1930, Boston's 300th birthday, Woodward had two paintings features in the Boston Globe's Sunday Special "Rotogravure" Section. October Gold (Jun. 29, 1930) and then Winter Silence (Dec. 28, 1930), a winter evening stream painting.

Unnamed: A Winter's Mist, c. 1920

MORE FROM THE EDITOR:

The picture of the painting you see above was previously "unnamed." What this means is it does not have a name on its stretcher and its current owners to not have its provenance. However, in the process of our audit, working on this very artwork page, and reading Woodward's description. This painting came to mind immediately. Woodward's words, "an evening stream in sunset glow," fits this subject better than most. What is more is that MOST Winter Evening Stream paintings are true nocturnes. Their glow comes from the artist's lamp and moonlight. But this is a sunset glow, and the previously unnamed painting above fits the bill better than any other we have ever seen. While we wouldn't bet our house on it, we would bet our car, it is Evening Glow or something close to it. Should we learn this is not Evening Glow we will make the necessary corrections and make record of our mistake.

To the left: is another unnamed Winter Evening Stream canvas that is unsigned. Because it is unsigned, it is most likely Woodward made it as a gift for someone close to him. This canvas would not have a name for this reason, it was a gift. The painting above is signed. Not only that, it is signed with the artist's famed Red "S" which he did not begin using consistently until 1922 and thereafter which dates the painting above in the correct time period.