“Autumn Landscape” (oil on canvas), by Joseph H. Greenwood (1857-1927), at the Worcester Art Museum.
The museum explains:
"The son of French-Canadian immigrants, Greenwood grew up in Spencer, Mass. He left school at age 11 to work in the local boot factory and later wire mill. Meanwhile, he scavenged chicken feathers for brushes and wallpaper scraps for pigment to create his first works of art. A wealthy mill owner recognized Greenwood's inclination for art and sent him to Wilbraham Academy for two terms of study.
“A prolific painter, Greenwood preferred the natural landscape as his subject and captured the pastoral beauty of rural New England in all its glorious seasons. He painted scenes from Worcester's Green Hill Park, Paxton's Davis Hill Farm (now Moore State Park), Grafton's Pigeon Hill, and the Western Massachusetts villages of Greenwich and Prescott, which were later flooded to create the massive Quabbin Reservoir. The paintings are distinctively New England.’’