Arthur Clifton Goodwin (American, 1864-1929), North West Winds

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Pastel on paper, pencil signed "A. C. Goodwin" at lower right, inscribed and signed to the verso, matted and framed under glass.

Sight size 12 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.; Frame dimensions 20 1/2 x 26 1/4 in.

Boston artist Arthur Clifton Goodwin began painting at the age of thirty and quickly established himself as a gifted self-taught Impressionist associated with the Ashcan School and the circle of Robert Henri. Over a twenty-year career in Boston, he earned widespread recognition for his expressive urban and landscape scenes, with Childe Hassam calling him “the greatest painter in Boston.” In 1921, Goodwin moved to New York and opened a studio on Washington Square before later settling in Chatham, New York, where he painted many notable landscapes.

Goodwin was a member of the Guild of Boston Artists and the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters, and he exhibited widely at institutions including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery, and Milch Galleries in New York. His work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and Colby College, among others. In 1974, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston honored the artist with a major retrospective exhibition, helping renew appreciation for his work among institutions and collectors alike.

Good estate condition; not examined out of the frame.