Quick Reference

Time Period:
1941

Location:
The south window
Buckland Southwick studio

Medium:
Oil on Canvas

Type:
Landscape

Category:
Window Picture

Size:
25 x 30

Exhibited:
Grand Central Galleries (NYC),1941

Purchased:
Unknown

Provenance:
N/A

Noteworthy:

Nothing of note for this piece of work.

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Featured Artwork: The South Window, 1941

The South Window

RSW's Diary Comments

"My right hand south studio window, winter outside, showing roof of storage shop and Ashfield Hills, the little Chinese statue surrounded with ivy-geranium on the window shelf. Bought by Grand Central Art Galleries for their Founders show of 1941. Don't know who owns it ."

Editor's Note:

When a painting is bought for the Grand Central Gallery Founder's Show, it means the gallery bought it to resell for the show itself. In one sense, it is an honor to have a painting bought for the show, yet it is unclear whether it is for a discounted price so that the gallery can earn a profit from the sale. It is the Grand Central Gallery's annual fundraiser. Woodward never complains about a painting being part of the Founder's show in regard to price. However, he hates the fact that the Gallery will not tell him the name of the buyer as a result.


Additional Notes

There are two other paintings similar in perspective to The South Window (Snowing Outside and When The Pear Tree Blooms), but they are also sepia prints so we have included the images above to show the south window in color but not the same perspective.