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American painter (1895–1946)
Good's lithograph Toddy Glass , 1935/1942, from the collection of the National Gallery of Art
Minetta Good , also known as Minnetta Good (1895–1946), was an American painter and printmaker who was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Her work often depicted farm scenes, family life, and/or transportation.
Biography
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Born in 1895 in New York City .[1] Cooper Union and New York School of Applied Design for Women .[2] Art Students League of New York with F. Luis Mora , and Robert Henri and received training from Cecilia Beaux .[2] [3]
For much of the 1920s and 1930s Good lived in Califon and Freehold , New Jersey . She won many prizes through the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors ,[2] Salons of America , and exhibited widely throughout the United States.
During the Great Depression she produced work for the Federal Art Project , including the Index of American Design .[1] murals for post offices in Dresden , Tennessee , and St. Martinville , Louisiana , for the Section of Painting and Sculpture .[4] [4] [2]
Minetta Good, Main Street , c. 1935-40, lithograph, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Good created five murals at St. Martinsville, and one was relocated to a new post office location,[4] [5] Evangeline , seated under an Evangeline Oak tree along the Bayou Teche with colorful water hyacinths and in the background is the Catholic church.[5] [6]
Death and legacy
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Good died in 1946, at age 51 in New York City, New York.[7]
Good's art work is found in many public museum collections including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ,[8] National Gallery of Art ,[9] Smithsonian American Art Museum .[10] Art Institute of Chicago ,[11] Illinois State Museum ,[12] Iowa State University Museums,[13] University of Massachusetts Amherst Gallery,[14] Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ,[15] Newark Museum ,[16] University of Wyoming Art Museum ,[17] David Owsley Museum of Art Ball State University ,[18]
See also
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References
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^ a b c d Hull, Howard (1996). Tennessee Post Office Murals ISBN 9781570720307
^ New Deal art: WPA works at the University of Kentucky, August 25--October 27, 1985 {{cite book }}: CS1 maint: others (link )
^ a b c "Minetta Good" . Living New Deal University of California, Berkeley . Retrieved 2020-04-17 .
^ a b "Installation of five mural decorations, portraying subjects of interest typical of this Southwest Louisiana, has been completed in the St. Martinville post office by Miss Minnetta Good, artist of the Section of Fine Arts, Public Buildings Administration, Washington, D. C." Newspapers.com . Teche News. December 13, 1940. Retrieved 2020-04-18 .
^ Justin Hamel (21 August 2020). "Searching for America's 1930s post office murals - a photo essay" . The Guardian . Retrieved 21 August 2020 .
^ "Minnetta Good" . Smithsonian American Art Museum . Retrieved 2017-08-16 .
^ "Minnetta Good" . The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum . Retrieved 2017-08-16 .
^ "Collection: Minnetta Good" . National Gallery of Art (NGA) . Retrieved 2020-04-18 .
^ "Artists: Minnetta Good" . Smithsonian American Art Museum . Retrieved 2020-04-18 .
^ "Victoriana - The Art Institute of Chicago" . Retrieved 27 February 2017 .
^ "WPA Art Collection -- Illinois State Museum" . Retrieved 27 February 2017 .
^ "Collection Minnetta Good" . Iowa State Collections - Iowa State University . Retrieved 2020-04-18 .
^ "WPA Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection" . fac.umass.edu . 1992. Retrieved 2020-04-18 .
^ "Museum Collection: MINNETTA GOOD" . PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . Retrieved 2020-04-18 .
^ "At the Country Auction, 1935 - Newark Museum" . Retrieved 27 February 2017 .
^ "American Regionalism: Selections from the Art Museum Collection, University of Wyoming Art Museum 2011 Educational Packet" (PDF) . University of Wyoming Art Museum . December 23, 2012. Retrieved 2020-04-17 .
^ "Minetta Good :: David Owsley Museum of Art Collection" . Retrieved 27 February 2017 .
Further reading
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Virginia Tuttle Clayton, Drawing on America's past: folk art, modernism, and the Index of American Design, National Gallery of Art, 2002, ISBN 0807827940
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