biografía de Leonard GOOD (1907-2000)

Lugar de nacimiento: Chickasha, OK

Direcciones: Norman, OK; Des Moines, IA

Profesión: Painter, educator, lecturer, mus curator

Estudios: Univ. Oklahoma, B.F.A. & Letzeisen Medal, 1927; ASL, with Nicolaides, 1930; Univ. Iowa, with Jean Charlot, 1940.

Exposiciones: Univ. Oklahoma, 1927 (prize); Tulsa AA, 1938 (gold), 1939 (prize), 1941 (prize); Oklahoma AA, 1927-41, 1942 (prize), 1943-46; Munic. Exhib., NY, 1936, 1937; Philbrook AC, 1941-46; First & Second Nat. Exhibs. Am. Art, MMA, 1936 & 1937; Gallery of States Touring Exhib., AFA, Washington, DC, 1945; Milwaukee AC, 1951 (Zadok purchase prize for Hard Winter, painting); Mid. America Annual, Joslyn Mus. Art, Omaha, NE, 1955; Iowa Ann., Des Moines AC, 1958 (first prize for Survivor, drawing); Judged Juried Arts Ann., Tyler, TX, 1969; Iowa State Fair, 1971 (first prize for Panorama, Iowa scene); Maka Gallery, Rock Island, IL , 1970s.

Asociaciones: Prairie WCS; Oklahoma AA; SSAL; Springfield (MA) Art Lg.; Delta Phi Delta (nat. vice-pres., 1954-58; nat. pres., 1958-60); Art Dir. Assn. Iowa; Des Moines AC (various committees, 1950-).

Obra: Des Moines (IA) Art Center; Milwaukee (WI) Art Center; Oklahoma City (OK) Art Center Philbrook AC, Tulsa, OK; Kansas State Fed. Art, Manhattan. Commissions: portrait, Oklahoma Hist. Mus., Oklahoma City, 1949; two portraits, Univ. Oklahoma, Norman, 1949-50; three portraits, Drake Univ., Des Moines, IA, 1954-60; portrait, Iowa Hist. Mus., Des Moines, 1962; series of Iowa scenes for Sun features, Des Moines Register, 1965.

Comentarios: Preferred media: oils, acrylics, watercolors. Positions: visiting artist-in-residence, Iowa State Univ., 1960-61; artist-in-residence, Nat. Endowment Arts & Iowa Arts Council, Shenandoah, IA, 1970-71. Publications: illustrator, A Certain Young Widow, Univ. Oklahoma Press, 1930; illustrator of instructional manuals for U.S. Air Force, Tinker Field, OK, 1943-44; author, Art Today, U.S. Armed Forces Inst., 1951; contributor, Widening Horizons: Oklahoma Edition, Oklahoma City AC, 1960. Teaching: professor, painting & drawing, Univ. Oklahoma, 1930-50; professor, drawing & painting, Univ. Wisconsin, 1950-52; professor art history, Drake Univ., 1952-, head dept. art, 1952-68. Collections arranged: assembled permanent collection of paintings for Preferred Risk Life Ins. Co. Home Office Bldg., Des Moines, 1969.

Fuentes: WW73; WW47.