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Jul 28, 2017 - Jul 29, 2017
Woodcock, 1875
signed and dated "R. LaBarre Goodwin 1875" lower right
oil on canvas, 16 by 20 in.
Born in Albany, New York, Richard LaBarre Goodwin was the son of portrait painter Edwin Weyburn Goodwin (1800-1845). Taking after his father, he painted portraits before turning to the “gibier mort” genre. Most famous for his still life paintings featuring a variety of hanging game birds, Goodwin worked in a highly realistic style along the lines of Alexander Pope, Jr. (1849-1924) and George Cope (1855-1929). Goodwin began painting these trompe l'oeil still lifes during the 1880s, when he spent a decade traveling through rural Western New York State. In 1890, Goodwin began his itinerant life, with a move to Washington D.C. While there he found patronage from California senators Leland Stanford (founder of Stanford University) and George Hearst (millionaire investor who founded the Hearst publishing empire with his son William Randolph Hearst). After D.C., Goodwin went to Chicago for the 1893 World’s Fair and stayed for the next seven years. In 1900 he moved west, spending the remainder of his life in California and the Pacific Northwest.
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