RSW's Diary Comments

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March Snow, c. 1947

Editor's Note from March Snow:

This painting is nearly exact to the similarly named painting to the right. It might be a mix up by Dr. Mark. We looked through the sepia negatives we have and only March Snow is in the records. In fact, we were able to reproduce the image using a white screen on a bright iPad to photograph it. Unfortunately, going strictly digital does not produce the warm tones printing it to paper and then scanning it to digital gets as the picture to the right reveals ⮞

That was something Dr. Mark could do that we can't. As a country doctor he knew how to develop pictures from negatives and even had a dark room in his office...

... we do not know where Dr. Mark got the name, "Snow in March" from. We cannot find any reference to it... anywhere. March Snow is a certainty because we have the sleeve holding the negative with its year and name on it so there is no question. Still, this is a time period when Dr. Mark would still be working for Woodward when he was not away at school, so we will keep both for the time being or until we can prove it without any doubt.

See more below ⮟

Winter Peace #2

The painting of this artwork page is of the 'little' window, facing east, in the Southwick Studio. While most people remember the custom artists' north window better, the little east window was painted more. From the records we have, Woodward first painted the north window as the subject from the supply closet window in the carriage house, then made a painting looking through the north window shorting after moving into the new home and studio in March of 1935. It wasn't until 1937 when he then painted the south windows, the balcony door and his desk corner windows, and finally getting to the little east window. He would paint the little east window another 16 times after that, six more than the north window.

⮜ We included an image of Apple Tree Window. to the left because it has three items also seen in the paintings above. That little green bottle appears in more window paintings than any other item. Also, the ivy plant only appears in a couple little east window paintings (see: A White Day), it is usually found on the sill of the north window.