Quick Reference

Time Period:
1937 or '38

Location:
Shelburne Falls, MA

Medium:
Oil on Canvas

Type:
Landscape

Category:
Mountains,Landscapes & Views

Size:
27 X 30

Exhibited:
Winchester (MA) Art League, 1937
Mass. State College, 1938
Westfield Athenaeum, 1939
Grand Central Galleries (NYC),1939

Purchased:
Unknown

Provenance:
NA

Noteworthy:

According to Dr. Mark, Woodward was very fond of Mrs. (Elinor) Buell. He often took her, "out to ride in the 12 cylinder Packard Phaeton many times to the Heath pasture to pick low bush blueberries."


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RSW's Diary Comments


"1937 or 8. Painted from Mrs. Buell's Hill House of red maple in pasture against the S.F. Tower Mountain."


Additional Notes


A Google Maps screen capture of the area.

Editor's Note:

When we can, we are now adding these topography screen captures of the the area when we know the location. The Buell's and Elinor lived on Goodnow Road. Goodnow Hill is next to Crittenden Hill on the eastern side of Buckland just above the Shelburne Falls area and looking across the vally from the Buell place you can see the western face of Bald Mountain where the Fire Tower sits. The views of the valley where the Deerfield River cuts through Shelburne Falls from Crittenden and Goodnow hills is amazing.

We would love to locate this painting to see the colors Woodward incorporated but from where it exhibited, we know he thought very highly of this painting.