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betty goodwin, 1923 – 2008
December 8, 2008
Betty Goodwin, one of my biggest influences, has died. In my thesis report on The Wardrobe Project I wrote of the influence her Tarpaulin series (1974-1978) had on my working methods. Countless times I have shown her work to friends, colleagues, classmates and students. I have stood in awe before her works in galleries, marveling at the sensitivity and subtlety of her smudgey marks. Every time I have taken an eraser out of a student’s hand or urged a student to pay closer attention to richness of surface in a drawing, I invoke Betty and her work.
swimmer no. 3, mixed media drawing, 1983
The above image was originally nicked from this web gallery in 2006 for a flickr set of drawings I put together to show my drawing students.
Posted by jodi on December 8, 2008 at 2.26pm
Categories: art