Betty Roodish Goodwin
(1923 - 2008)
Current Sale
BETTY ROODISH GOODWIN
Study for Berlin Project
mixed media
signed, titled and dated 1982 lower right
21 x 24.5 in ( 53.3 x 62.2 cm ) ( sheet )
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BETTY ROODISH GOODWIN
Sans titre (Figure & Animal Series)
oil stick
signed and dated "7 87" lower right; titled and dated 1987 on a gallery label on the reverse
11.75 x 17.75 in ( 29.8 x 45.1 cm ) ( sheet )
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BETTY ROODISH GOODWIN
Sans titre (Figure with Megaphone)
pastel
signed and dated 1988 lower right; titled and dated on a label on the reverse
11.5 x 8.25 in ( 29.2 x 21 cm ) ( sheet )
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BETTY ROODISH GOODWIN
Sans titre (Figure with Megaphone)
oil stick and graphite on translucent mylar film
signed and dated 1988 lower right; titled and dated on a label on the reverse
12 x 9 in ( 30.5 x 22.9 cm ) ( sheet )
This sale is now closed.
BETTY ROODISH GOODWIN
Bent Figure with Heart and Foot
oil stick and graphite on mylar
signed and dated 1993-1995 lower right; titled and dated on a label on the reverse, titled "Figure with Foot" on a label on the reverse
17.75 x 11.75 in ( 45.1 x 29.8 cm ) ( sheet )
This sale is now closed.
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Betty Goodwin Biography
(1923 - 2008)
A renowned Canadian printmaker, painter, and sculptor, Betty Roodish Goodwin (born Montréal, March 19, 1923; died Montréal December 1, 2008) began her career in the visual arts in the late 1940s. Largely self-taught, Goodwin’s practice evolved from drawing to experimentations with other media. Out of her many experimental efforts with mark-making as a student of Yves Gaucher at Sir George Williams School (now Concordia) University in the late 1960s, she discovered engraving and etching, which became her primary means of expression. Later, as an accomplished sculptor, painter, and installation artist, she tended to work in series.
Robert Ayre noted, “...I would say she is essentially the painter. She scarcely differentiates her forms; anatomy concerns her no more than it does Jean Dubuffet or Jan Muller. She flattens them out; runs them together. She is conscious always of the human dilemma, the drama of the ‘Dybbuk,’ and the tragedy of ‘Leavetaking’, of ‘The trial’--but not the individual is nameless, part of the crowd, a dissolving member of the eternal flux. It isn’t however, a drab and hopeless tide, for Betty Goodwin’s colour is gorgeous.”
A recipient of several honours, Goodwin was chosen to represent Canada in the 1995 Venice Biennial. Other notable awards included the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award of the Canada Council for the Arts in 1981, the Banff Centre National Award for Visual Arts in 1984, the Prix Paul-Émile Borduas in 1986, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1988, and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize in 1995. Goodwin was the first recipient of the Harold Town Prize for Drawing in 1998, and in 2003 she received the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. Throughout her career she also received honorary doctorates from various Canadian universities, including the University of Guelph, the University of Waterloo, and the University of Montreal.
