ROBERT GOODNOUGH Signed 1965 Oil on Canvas Painting – “Standing Figure”. Robert Goodnough was born in upstate. Though he later evolved into a full-blown abstractionist, while at. He worked realistically from casts and from life. Hofmann, at this time in. Probably had more to do with shifting young American painters away from making art from reality and realist thinking into abstraction than any other teacher of painting. Goodnough would later teach at. He also served as an art critic for Art News Magazine from 1950 to 1957. Goodnough became another of the tens of thousands of artists caught up in the Cubism of Pablo Picasso. He was also attracted by the stark abstractions Piet Mondrian. He combined these styles in the 1950s with that of Hofmann, his teacher, in a hybrid of Cubism and Abstract Expressionism. Since that time, like so many other abstractionists, Goodnough has been influenced by many abstract directions in art, including collage, sculpted constructions of birds and figures, and hard-edge paintings in the 1950s and 60s. From the 1970s, Goodnough has painted very large, geometric, abstract canvases. His work is in the following collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Art Institute of Chicago; Baltimore Museum of Art; Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Newark Museum, New Jersey; and the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. This superb oil is entitled ” Standing Figure ” and is signed by the artist on the front lower left “Goodnough” and dated “65”. It is also signed again, titled and dated on the canvas verso. It is in excellent condition, measures 8″ x 12″ and is framed in a linen, wood and gold frame for a total size of 13″ x 17″. PROVENANCE: Gertrude Kasle Gallery. This painting was exhibited in the inaugural show at the gallery on. Saturday, April 10, 1965. Gallery retail prices are always much higher. The item “ROBERT GOODNOUGH Signed 1965 Original Oil on Canvas Painting Standing Figure” is in sale since Sunday, January 27, 2008. This item is in the category “Art\Paintings”. The seller is “skf-fineart” and is located in Los Angeles, California. This item can be shipped to North, South, or Latin America, all countries in Europe, all countries in continental Asia, Australia.
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Signed?: Signed
- Medium: Oil
- Subject: Abstract
- Style: Abstract
- Size Type/Largest Dimension: Small (Up to 14”)
- Date of Creation: 1950-1969
- Region of Origin: US
- Painting Surface: Canvas
- Features: Framed