In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Robert W. Wood maintained a home in the art colony of Woodstock, New York. He seems to have discovered the Catskill mountains hamlet early in the century, and began painting there around 1930. In the years after World War II, apparently about 1948, Wood and his second wife Tula purchased a studio there.

It was during this period that Wood began working with publishing companies who printed inexpensive color reproductions of works by both contemporary artists and the old masters. It was Wood's paintings of the changing seasons around Woodstock that sem to have captivated the public, and his reproductions were immediately popular. The most successful of Woods' Catskill scenes, "October Morn," sold more than one million copies in less than two years. Across America, homes, offices and motel rooms were decorated with that and other Wood reproductions. These inexpensive paper reproductions made Robert Wood the most famous American landscape painter.

Wood's rustic studio in Woodstock was located out in the forest, surrounded by maples and elms as well as a quiet brook. He immortalized this setting in hundreds of paintings, especially ones that depicted the bold colors of autumn. In his artistic ouvre there are also many depictions of the Catskill Mountains' landscape enveloped in snow, and spring compositions with lilacs and bloomign apple trees.

From Woodstock, Wood went on sketching trips to New Hampshire, Vermont and along the Maine coast. These subjects are also represented among his eastern scenes, but are much rarer than the hundreds of paintings done of the Catskill Mountains.