Minetta Good

Minetta Good (1895–1946) also known as Minnetta Good, was an American painter and printmaker that was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

Biography

Born in New York City, Good studied at the Art Students League of New York with F. Luis Mora, and received training from Cecilia Beaux. For much of the 1920s and 1930s she lived in Califon and Freehold, New Jersey. In 1932 she received the Eloise Egan Prize for best landscape painting, given by the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. She was one of the founders of the Salons of America, and exhibited widely throughout the United States.

During the Great Depression she produced work for the Federal Art Project.[1] She created two murals for post offices in Dresden, Tennessee, and St. Martinville, Louisiana, for the Section of Painting and Sculpture. Both murals may still be seen today, the former in its original location and the latter in a new post office building.[2]

Good is represented by examples of her prints in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art,[3] Art Institute of Chicago,[4] the Illinois State Museum,[5] and the David Owsley Museum of Art Ball State University.[6] Her 1935 painting At the Country Auction is owned by the Newark Museum.[7]

She died in 1946, at age 51 in New York City, New York.[1][8]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Minetta Good". Papillon Gallery. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "Minetta Good". Living New Deal. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
  3. ↑ "Minnetta Good". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
  4. ↑ "Victoriana - The Art Institute of Chicago". Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "WPA Art Collection -- Illinois State Museum". Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  6. ↑ "Minetta Good :: David Owsley Museum of Art Collection". Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  7. ↑ "At the Country Auction, 1935 - Newark Museum". Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  8. ↑ "Minnetta Good". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2017-08-16.


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