Minetta Good

Minetta Good, also known as Minnetta Good (1895–1946), was an American painter and printmaker that was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Her work often depicted farm scenes, family life, and/or transportation.

Minetta Good
Born1895
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died1946
New York City, New York, U.S.
Other namesMinnetta Good
EducationCooper Union,
New York School of Applied Design for Women,
Art Students League of New York
OccupationArtist
Good's lithograph Toddy Glass, 1935/1942, from the collection of the National Gallery of Art

Biography

Born in 1895 in New York City.[1] Good attended Cooper Union and New York School of Applied Design for Women.[2] Good studied at the Art Students League of New York with F. Luis Mora, and Robert Henri and received training from Cecilia Beaux.[2][3]

For much of the 1920s and 1930s Good lived in Califon and Freehold, New Jersey. She won many prizes through the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors,[2] including the 1932 Eloise Egan Prize for best landscape painting. 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.[4] The Dresden mural, "Retrospection" (1938) depicts early days of the county and is still located in this original post office location.[4][2]

Good created five murals at St. Martinsville, and one was relocated to a new post office location,[4] the original location feature four circular ceiling light decorations in the lobby, depicting the magnolia, the azalea, the crawfish and the pelican painted in oils on canvas.[5] At the St. Martinsville post office there was a larger painting of Evangeline, seated under an Evangeline Oak tree along the Bayou Teche with colorful water hyacinths and in the background is the Catholic church.[5][6]

Death and legacy

Good died in 1946, at age 51 in New York City, New York.[7]

Good's art work is found in many public museum collections including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[8] National Gallery of Art,[9] Smithsonian American Art Museum.[10] Art Institute of Chicago,[11] Illinois State Museum,[12] Iowa State University Museums,[13] University of Massachusetts Amherst Gallery,[14] Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,[15] Newark Museum,[16] University of Wyoming Art Museum,[17] David Owsley Museum of Art Ball State University,[18] among others.

See also

References
  1. Adams, Katherine H.; Keene, Michael L. (2015). Women, Art and the New Deal. McFarland. p. 80. ISBN 9781476662978.
  2. Hull, Howard (1996). Tennessee Post Office Murals. The Overmountain Press. pp. 58–62. ISBN 9781570720307.
  3. New Deal art: WPA works at the University of Kentucky, August 25--October 27, 1985 (Exhibition publication). Harriet W. Fowler, Sophia Wallace. University of Kentucky Art Museum. 1985.CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. "Minetta Good". Living New Deal. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  5. "Installation of five mural decorations, portraying subjects of interest typical of this Southwest Louisiana, has been completed in the St. Martinville post office by Miss Minnetta Good, artist of the Section of Fine Arts, Public Buildings Administration, Washington, D. C." Newspapers.com. Teche News. December 13, 1940. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  6. Justin Hamel (21 August 2020). "Searching for America's 1930s post office murals - a photo essay". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  7. "Minnetta Good". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
  8. "Minnetta Good". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
  9. "Collection: Minnetta Good". National Gallery of Art (NGA). Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  10. "Artists: Minnetta Good". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  11. "Victoriana - The Art Institute of Chicago". Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  12. "WPA Art Collection -- Illinois State Museum". Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  13. "Collection Minnetta Good". Iowa State Collections - Iowa State University. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  14. "WPA Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection". fac.umass.edu. 1992. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  15. "Museum Collection: MINNETTA GOOD". PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  16. "At the Country Auction, 1935 - Newark Museum". Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  17. "American Regionalism: Selections from the Art Museum Collection, University of Wyoming Art Museum 2011 Educational Packet" (PDF). University of Wyoming Art Museum. December 23, 2012. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  18. "Minetta Good :: David Owsley Museum of Art Collection". Retrieved 27 February 2017.


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