Gertrude Goodrich Explained

Gertrude Goodrich
Birth Place:New York City
Death Place:New Jersey
Nationality:American
Field:Painting

Gertrude Simone[1] Goodrich (1914–2017) was an American painter and writer, whose style has been described as "primitive".[2]

Goodrich was born in New York City in 1914.[3] During her career, she produced work for New Deal art projects. Among these was a mural, Production, for the post office in Buchanan, Michigan, created in 1941.[4] The mural was later painted over, but a plan for its restoration has been put together. Its place has been taken by a copy of a preliminary sketch.[5] Goodrich painted another mural for the cafeteria of the United States Department of Health and Human Services building in Washington, D.C.;[6] titled Scenes of American Life (Beach) and painted in dry pigment in beeswax emulsion on shaped canvas between 1941 and 1947, it is now in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[7] alongside a number of related works.[3] The museum also houses a study for the Buchanan post office mural.[8] Some sources erroneously provide a death date of 1980,[9] however, the Archives of American Art conducted an oral interview with Goordich in 2008.[10] She died in New Jersey in August 2017 at the age of 102.[11]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/nyregion/soapbox-who-let-animals-into-eden.html SOAPBOX; Who Let Animals Into Eden?
  2. Book: Arts Magazine. 1943. Art Digest Incorporated.
  3. Web site: Gertrude Goodrich. Smithsonian American Art Museum. 27 December 2017.
  4. Web site: Post Office Mural - Buchanan MI - Living New Deal. 27 December 2017.
  5. Web site: Buchanan, MI Art - wpamurals.com. www.wpamurals.com. 27 December 2017. 22 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160322150241/http://www.wpamurals.com/buchanan.htm. dead.
  6. Web site: Department of Health and Human Services Building: Murals and Frescoes - Washington DC - Living New Deal. 27 December 2017.
  7. Web site: Scenes of American Life (Beach). Smithsonian American Art Museum. 27 December 2017.
  8. Web site: Production (mural study, Buchanan, Michigan Post Office). Smithsonian American Art Museum. 27 December 2017.
  9. Web site: CLARA. clara.nmwa.org. 27 December 2017.
  10. Web site: Oral history interview with Gertrude Goodrich, 2008 Mar. 13. www.aaa.si.edu. 27 December 2017.
  11. https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=61260&h=337189&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=OzZ6625&_phstart=successSource Gertrude Simone Goodrich in the New Jersey, Death Index, 1901-2017

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