Featured Artwork: The Guilford Farm; Conway

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Editor's Note:

February 6, 2026: The website and estate are dropping the "unnamed" status of this unsigned painting made by Woodward. Everyone familiar with the painting refers to it as the Guilford farm painting and thus it has a name, The Guildford Farm; Conway. Because it is unsigned, there is no record of it. However, as seen below, it has been verified by the two people who count; the executer of Woodward's estate, his cousin, Florence who sold the painting, and Dr. Mark Woodward's benefactor who was ALSO with Woodward when he made it and gave us its name.

Stapled to he rear stretcher,
Florence Haeberle's authentication.

This painting was exhibited at the September 2012 Exhibition in Deerfield, MA. Technically this is an unfinished painting. Though the scene is complete in an impressionistic sense. It lacks the detail Woodward would normally have added to the wood of the barn, the clouds, and trees.

The painting was sold after Woodward's death in 1957 by his cousin, Florence, the executor of his will. Woodward had as many as 180 unfinished paintings in his "cue" at various degrees of complete-ness at any given time in his studio storage area. Florence sold the painting just six months after Woodward's death, perhaps to cover certain closing cost related to the estate.

Dr. Mark Purinton Authentication Letter

Fortunately for us, the additional formation is provided by Dr. Mark Purinton, former employee and primary beneficiary of the bulk of Woodward's estate, including his last home and studio, the Southwick Place on Upper Street in Buckland. Dr. Mark began working for Woodward in 1940 as a groundskeepers and by 1942 when he got his driver's license was promoted to chauffeur driving the artist around on errands and to locations to paint. Not only does he remember the painting, he knows its location, suggesting he drove Woodward there. Since Dr. Mark did not start driving Woodward until 1942, the painting cannot be older.