Lloyd Goodrich (July 10, 1897March 27, 1987) was an American

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

. He wrote extensively on American artists, including

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Thomas Eakins Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (; July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists. For the length ...

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and Reginald Marsh. He was associated with the

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for many years.

Life and career

During his childhood in Nutley, New Jersey, Goodrich was a close friend of Reginald Marsh, who would later become an important painter. Initially Goodrich considered a career as an artist. He studied painting and drawing at the

Art Students League of New York The Art Students League of New York is an art school at 215 West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City, New York. The League has historically been known for its broad appeal to both amateurs and professional artists. Although artists may stu ...

with

Kenneth Hayes Miller Kenneth Hayes Miller (March 11, 1876 – January 1, 1952) was an American painter, printmaker, and teacher. Career Born in Oneida, New York, he studied at the Art Students League of New York with Kenyon Cox, Henry Siddons Mowbray and with Willia ...

from 1913-1915. Between late 1915 and summer 1916, he studied with

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at the

National Academy of Design The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fin ...

. In 1916 Goodrich returned to the Art Students League but he gave up his artistic ambitions by 1918. In 1935 the Whitney Museum of American Art named him Research Curator. He later become the Associate Director in 1948, and then Director in 1958. Goodrich died of cancer at the age of 89.

Books

*''Thomas Eakins: His life and work'' (1933, Whitney Museum of American Art) *''Winslow Homer'' (1944, Macmillan and Co.) *''Four American Expressionists'' (Exhibition catalogue, 1959, Whitney Museum of American Art) *''The graphic art of Winslow Homer'' (1968, Museum of Graphic Art) *''Winslow Homer's America 1857-1880'' (1969, Tudor Publishing Co.) *''American naive paintings of the 18th & 19th centuries'' (1970, Chrysler Museum) — co-written with Albert Ten Eyck Gardner *''Edward Hopper'' (1971, Harry N. Abrams) *''Reginald Marsh'' (1972, Harry N. Abrams) *''Thomas Eakins'' (1982, Harvard University Press) *''Albert Pinkham Ryder: Painter of dreams'' (1989, Harry N. Abrams) — co-written with William Innes Homer *''Record of works by Winslow Homer'' (2005, Spanierman Gallery)

References

External links

Dictionary of Art Historians biographical entry

Monuments Men Foundation biographical entry
1897 births 1987 deaths Art Students League of New York alumni American art historians 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers People associated with the Philadelphia Museum of Art Historians from New York (state) People associated with the Whitney Museum of American Art 20th-century American male writers {{US-art-historian-stub