Minetta Good

Minetta Good (1895-1946) was an American artist born in New York City.

Education

She received formal art training from the renowned artists Cecilia Beaux and F. Luis Mora. A native New Yorker, Good spent most of the 1920s and 1930s in California and in Freehold, New Jersey. She was highly talented in landscape, still life and figurative works.

Awards and murals

In 1932 her canvas, Idle Quarry, was awarded the prestigious Eloise Egan Prize for best landscape painting by the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. Her mural work includes the oil on canvas mural, titled Retrospection, in the Dresden, Tennessee post office, commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, completed in 1938 and Evangeline for the post office in St. Martinville, Louisiana painted in 1940.^[1]

Exhibitions

Good exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Saint Louis Art Museum. She founded the Salons of America and exhibited there. She also had many solo exhibitions, including a showing of her work at the Bamberger Galleries in the early 1930s. The Prints and Drawing collection at the Art Institute of Chicago includes her color lithograph on paper drawing, Victoriana, published by the Works Progress Administration.^[2] Her lithograph on paper print, Main Street, is in the Illinois State Museum collection. ^[3]

Death

She died in 1946 at the age of fifty-one.

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