“SITTING IN THE PARK, BOSTON COMMONS”
Signed "A. C. Goodwin" l.l.
Pastel on paper
Museums (13): Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Smith College Museum of Art; Toledo Museum of Art;
Cheekwood Museum of Art & Botanical Garden; Parrish Art Museum; Colby College Museum of Art;
Farnsworth Art Museum; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Addison Gallery of American Art;
Indianapolis Museum of Art; Georgia Museum of Art; Lowe Art Museum;
New Britain Museum of American Art
Books: (43) including A C Goodwin 1864-1929, Emerson; American Impressionists, Montgomery;
Impressionist New York, Gerdts; The Ten, Patricia Pierce; American Impressionism, Boyle;
Periodicals: American Art Review, 2004 December, Envisioning New England
Image size: 11 ¼” × 8 ½”
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GOODWIN, Arthur Clifton (1864-1929)
Birth place: Portsmouth, NH
Addresses: Boston (before 1920); Old Chatham, NYC, NY (1920-27); Boston (1928-29)
Profession: Painter, craftsperson, writer, lecturer, teacher
Studied: self-taught
Exhibited: Copley Society, 1902; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1903, 1907-19, 1923-26;
Doll & Richards Gallery, Boston, 1904; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1911, 1974; Guild of Boston Artists, 1914;
Boston Arts Club, 1904, 1908, 1916; Corcoran Gallery, 1910, 1914, 1916, 1923; Pan-Pacific Expo, 1915;
Society of Independent Artists, 1917; Carnegie Institute; Art Institute of Chicago; National Academy of Design;
Milch Gallery, 1920s; Addison Gallery, 1946; Vose Gallery, Boston, 1920, 1985, 1988
Member: Boston Gallery of Art; Boston Society of Water Color Painters.
Work: Union Club, Boston; St. Botolph Club, Boston; Colby College Art Museum; Addison Gallery Arts,
Andover, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Smith College Museum of Art; Toledo Museum of Art;
Cheekwood Museum of Art & Botanical Garden; Parrish Art Museum; Colby College Museum of Art;
Farnsworth Art Museum; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Addison Gallery of American Art; Indianapolis
Museum of Art; Georgia Museum of Art; Lowe Art Museum; New Britain Museum of American Art
Comments: Best known as a painter of Boston street scenes and its waterfront, painted en plein air.
After 1920, he also produced NYC scenes in his Washington Square studio. A failed marriage probably caused
his return to Boston, a bohemian lifestyle, and drinking. Although he never studied in Paris, as did most other
American Impressionists, he captured perhaps better than anyone the feeling of Boston with vibrant strokes in oils and
pastels. When he died, his friends found him in his little room (apparently smelling of alcohol) with his bags packed and a
ticket to France in his pocket.
Sources: Who’s Who 1927; Peter Hastings Falk files; Falk, Exh. Record Series.
This biography is drawn from ”Who Was Who in American Art”, the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.
Museums:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Smith College Museum of Art
Toledo Museum of Art
Cheekwood Museum of Art & Botanical Garden
Parrish Art Museum;
Colby College Museum of Art
Farnsworth Art Museum
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Addison Gallery of American Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Georgia Museum of Art
Lowe Art Museum
New Britain Museum of American Art
