Maude Goodman

Maude Goodman
Born 1860
Manchester
Died 1938
Nationality British
Hush (or, A Moment of Idleness)

Maude Goodman (1860–1938) was a British painter.

Biography

Goodman was born in Manchester but moved to London where she became a pupil of Edward Poynter.[1] She married Arthur Scanes in 1882 but continued to use her maiden name. She exhibited 54 works during the years 1874-1901 at the Royal Academy.[2] She also showed works at the Chicago World Exposition in 1893.[3]

Her painting Hush was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[4]

She was mentioned by Dorothy L. Sayers in The Wimsey Papers VI as an overly cloying painter of idealised children in Arcadian settings; the writer reported that the boys in her nursery of the 1890s took a gift Goodman out of its frame and used it as a pea-shooting target. [5]

She is mentioned in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India. Dr. Aziz would have hung her paintings on the walls of Mr. Fielding's apartment if he had had it.

References

  1. ↑ Maude Goodman in the RKD
  2. ↑ Maude Goodman in The Dictionary of British Women Artists, by Sara Gray, 2009
  3. ↑ 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exposition
  4. ↑ Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
  5. ↑ The Spectator 21 December 1939, Pg. 10


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