Featured Artwork: From a Village Yard, 1934

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From a Village Yard, 1936, sepia

For the longest time we overlooked the fact that Woodward did not move into his Southwick Place until March of 1935 and that the painting by the same name made in 1936 could NOT be the same painting as the one that exhibited at the Westfield Athenaeum in 1934. It was not uncommon for Woodward to recycle names, but not so close together as this-- less than 2 years between them.

Unnamed: Barnyard Blanket, date
unknown... This unnamed and unsigned
painting is of the Hiram yard between
the house and barn looking west. Yet, it
also does not show anything else to sug-
gest anything resembling a village scene.

We have also reason-ed that it is unlikely that this 1934 painting could be from the yard of the Hiram Woodward Place which burned in July of 1934.

Commentary from the 1936 From a Village Yard page:

All references to the term "village" in Woodward's catalog are specific to town centers, like Upper Street in Buckland (10 paintings). Others paintings include, Heath (3 paintings), North Hadley ( 1 painting) and Leyden (1 painting). Without any other information, we couldn't hazard a guess as to what the subject of the original painting could be other than to say the most likely would be Heath (possibly Mrs. Moors home he visited as early as 1927) and the least likely would be Buckland.