Biografie von Richard LaBarre GOODWIN (1840-1910)

Birth place: Albany, NY

Death place: Orange, NJ

Profession: Still life, portrait and landscape painter

Studied: with his father, Edwin Weyburn Goodwin; and in NYC

Exhibited: Soc. Wash. Artists, 1892; Lewis & Clark Centenn., Portland, 1905 (Theodore Roosevelt's Cabin")"

Work: NMAA; Stanford Univ. Mus.; Smithsonian Inst.; Montclair (NJ) Art Mus.; Vassar College; New Britain (CT) Mus. Am. Art; MFA, Houston, TX; MFA, Springfield, MA (Theodore Roosevelt's Cabin")"

Comments: Best known as a trompe l"úil painter of hanging game, cabin-door still lifes, and fish, produced from about 1889-on. He also painted some kitchen pictures. He began his career as an itinerant portrait painter, working in NYC and Syracuse, NY (1880s). It was reportedly after seeing Harnett's After the Hunt" (shown at the Stewart Saloon in NYC, 1886) that Goodwin himself took up the subject. In 1890 he went to Wash., DC; followed by Chicago (1893-1900), Colorado Springs (1900-02), California (1902-06), Portland, OR (1906-08), and Rochester, NY (1908-10). Also known as LaBarre Goodwin.

Sources: G&W; Orange Daily Chronicle, Dec. 10, 1910; Frankenstein, After the Hunt, 131-135, plates 69, 114, 115. More recently, see Baigell, Dictionary; Gerdts, Painters of the Humble Truth, 192; P & H Samuels, 191; McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.