Quick Reference

Time Period:
Fall of 1940

Location:
Heath Pasture

Medium:
Oil on Canvas

Type:
Landscape

Category:
Trees

Size:
27 x 30

Exhibited:
Vose Galleries

Purchased:
Unknown

Provenance:
N/A

Noteworthy:

The painting had some damage, but it has been restored.

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RSW's Diary Comments

October Heights Sepia
October Heights Sepia


"Painted in fall of 1940. The Heath pasture beech tree and band of hills, under a cloud-decked sky of autumn intensity, a beautiful fall light on the hills. Sold Feb. 1947, by Vose Galleries to... "


RSW's signature
A close up of RSW's signature

Additional Notes


Woodward painted this in the fall of 1940, still, it does not appear at any exhibition until it hangs in the Vose Gallery in 1945. This suggest to us that perhaps he kept it for himself for a time or lent it to a friend.

The year 1940 is important because that is the year his pasture studio would be completed. It is also a rare fall scene with the beech's leaves still attached. Much more common is his stark November paintings of a bare tree.