Featured Artwork: Dignity of Winter   also known as Winter Dignity and Snow Symphony

Additional Notes

Winter Dignity

There are no diary entry for a painting by this name. See Winter Dignity for Woodward's lengthy dairy remarks for this painting.

Editor's Note:

It is strongly believed that there is no separate painting name Dignity of Winter. This may have been the original name of the canvas that was changed to Winter Dignity in 1932.

We have a theory connecting the dots to a number of discrepancies linked to this painting. First, we believe it may have hung in the Myles Standish Hotel's restaurant dining room or lobby prior to Woodward's first exhibition at the hotel's art gallery in 1929. The artist often loaned the hotel a painting for years at a time and we do not always know what painting because no official records were kept. However, there are numerous examples of paintings going years between exhibitions and we believe the reason was most likely that it was on loan to someone or some place.

A painting by this name does exhibit at the 1931 Myles Standish art gallery exhibition and is very well reviewed. However, the official name in the exhibit records only list Winter Dignity. This disparity could be an error made either by the hotel workers who know the painting by its previous name or that the press kit given to the reviewers was not yet updated or corrected. There is also the possibility that there is a chalk drawing of this subject, however, there is no evidence confirming it. Still, if there was one, it would likely be named Dignity of Winter.