Robert Goodnough

(American, 1917–2010)

red, yellow, green, gray by robert goodnough

Robert Goodnough

Red, Yellow, Green, Gray, 1973

Price on Request

Biography

Timeline

1917
Born in Corland, NY
1940
Earned Fine Arts degree, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1941 - 1945
Served in WWII at Fort Bragg, Pacific Theater
1946
Studied at Amadee Ozenfant School of Fine Arts, London, UK
1947 - 1950
Earned master's degree in Art Education, New York University, New York, NY
1947
Attended the Hans Hofmann School of Art, Provincetown, MA
1949
Attended the New School for Social Research, New York, NY
1950 - 1960
Taught carpentry at the Fieldston School, Bronx, NY
2010
Died in White Plains, NY

Exhibitions

2009
New York Cool, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
2008
New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
Paintings by Robert Goodnough, Margot Stein Gallery, Lake Worth, FL (solo)
2007
The Abstract Impulse: Fifty Years of Abstraction at the National Academy, 1956-2006, The National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2005
Masters of Public Art, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY
Robert Goodnough: New and Recent Paintings, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2001
Geometric Forms in Abstraction, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich, Germany
1999
Goodnough: Paintings and Sculpture, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (solo)
1994
New York-Provincetown: A 50s Connection, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
1986
Goodnough: An Exhibition of Recent Paintings and Sculpture, Galerie Elca, London, UK
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1982
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Americans: The Collage, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
1980
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Public Collections

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA