Landscape
Goodnough recalled that he “came to New York City just in time to see the development of the New York School. When I arrived, Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, and all were already being recognized.” He had studied with Amedée Ozenfant, but preferred Hans Hofmann: “Hofmann got me freed up.” The critic Clement Greenberg championed Goodnough for a while and wrote about this painting. “His small blackish painting in the . . . Newman collection is one of the best things in it, and that’s saying a lot. The picture is tight, nuanced, and at the same time ‘violent’.”
Artwork Details
- Title: Landscape
- Artist: Robert Goodnough (American, Cortland, New York 1917–2010 White Plains, New York)
- Date: 1952
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 19 7/8 × 37 3/4 in. (50.5 × 95.9 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2006
- Object Number: 2006.32.19a, b
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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