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Robert Arthur Goodnough

Robert Arthur Goodnough (1917 - 2010) was active/lived in New York.  Robert Goodnough is known for Abstract expressionist genre-views, non objective, collage.

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"Robert Goodnough, Painter Who Eluded Categories, Dies at 92", By William Grimes. New York Times ( October 12, 2010)

Robert Goodnough, a painter whose stylistic evolution from vibrant, Cubist-inspired abstractions to Color Field canvases made him one of the least definable members of the second-generation Abstract Expressionists, died on Oct. 2 in White Plains.  He was 92 and lived in Thornwood, N.Y.

The cause was complications of pneumonia, said Eric Brown, a partner at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery.

In a career that lasted more than half a century, Mr. Goodnough (pronounced GOOD-now) eluded the neat categories that art critics relied on to codify the work of the Abstract Expressionists.  He moved among the second-generation members of the school but at the same time stood apart, and his work — kinetic, calligraphic dashes of primary colors in his early career, and subtle pastels beginning in the 1970s — often flirted with figuration.

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Robert Arthur Goodnough


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Collage and/or Decoupage
  • Easel Painting
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Birds, Ornithology, Avian Art
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Humor, Whimsy
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Portraits, Portraiture
Art Teacher
  • Amedee Ozenfant
  • Hans Hofmann
Art School
  • Hans Hofmann School of Art, Student
  • New School For Social Research, (The New School), Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Art Enterprises Collection
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Genre Specialty
  • Mural Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Stable Gallery, New York City
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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