Robert Arthur Goodnough  (American, 1917-2010) 

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Robert Arthur Goodnough Biography
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   Attended the Hans Hofmann School of Art, Provincetown, MA
1949   Attended the New School for Social Research, New York, NY
1947 - 1950   Earned master's degree in Art Education, New York University, New York, NY
1950 - 1960   Taught carpentry at the Fieldston School, Bronx, NY
2010   Died in White Plains, NY
Selected 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)
1978   Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
1976   Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
1975   Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
1974   Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1972   Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
1970   Gallery Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA (solo)
XXV Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1969   The New American Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, IL
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (solo)
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
Gallery Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA (solo)
1967   Annuals and Biennials, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1965   Annuals and Biennials, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1964   Yale University, New Haven, CT
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN (solo)
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)
New Vision Center Gallery, London, UK (solo)
USIS American Embassy, London, UK (solo)
Hans Hofmann and His Students, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1963   Annuals and Biennials, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1961 - 1962   The Art of Assemblage, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1961   The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)
Annuals and Biennials, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1960   The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)
1958   Nature in Abstraction: the Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1957   Annuals and Biennials, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
9th st. show, the first "New York Painting and Sculpture Annual" and subsequent 5 Annuals, Stable Gallery, New York, NY
1956   Four Younger Americans, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
Annuals and Biennials, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1951   9th St. Show, New York Painting and Sculpture Annual (and subsequent 5 Annuals), Stable Gallery, New York, NY
1950   Wittenborn Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
New Talent, The Kootz Gallery, New York, NY
Selected 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