Gertrude Simone Goodrich (1914–2017) was an American painter and writer, whose style has been described as "primitive". Goodrich was born in

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in 1914. During her career, she produced work for New Deal art projects. Among these was a mural, ''Production'', for the post office in

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, created in 1941. The mural was later painted over, but a plan for its restoration has been put together. Its place has been taken by a copy of a preliminary sketch. Goodrich painted another mural for the cafeteria of the

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building in

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; titled ''Scenes of American Life (Beach)'' and painted in dry pigment in beeswax emulsion on shaped canvas between 1941 and 1947, it is now in the collection of the

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, alongside a number of related works. The museum also houses a study for the Buchanan post office mural. Some sources erroneously provide a death date of 1980, however, the

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conducted an oral interview with Goordich in 2008. She died in New Jersey in August 2017 at the age of 102.Gertrude Simone Goodrich in the New Jersey, Death Index, 1901-2017
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