biografía de Jean GOODWIN (1903-1986)

Lugar de nacimiento: near Santa Ana, CA

Lugar de defunción: Claremont, CA

Direcciones: Claremont, CA

Profesión: Painter, craftsperson, muralist, illustrator, teacher

Estudios: Pomona College; AIC, 1926; Chouinard School Art; Univ. Calif., Los Angeles, B.E., 1931; Univ. Southern Calif., MFA, 1937.

Exposiciones: LACMA; AIC; P&S Los Angeles, 1933-37; Progressive Painters Southern Calif., 1934; Calif.-Pacific Int. Expo, San Diego, 1935; NY Munic. Exhib., 1937; San Francisco Expo, 1938; GGE, 1939; Los Angeles County Fair, 1941; Santa Barbara Mus. Art, 1946; Dalzell Hatfield Gal., 1946; French & American Tapestries, Otis I, Los Angeles & La Jolla AC, 1961; Mus. Contemporary Crafts Travelling Exhib., 1967; Enamels, Everson Mus. Fine Art, Syracuse, NY, 1969; Scripps College, 1969-. Awards: first award, Seventh Nat. Decorative Arts & Ceramics, Wichita AA, 1952; award for distinguished arch. decoration, Am. Inst. Architects, Southern Calif. Branch, 1956 & 1958; woman of the year in art, Los Angeles Times, 1958.

Asociaciones: Am. Crafts Council.

Obra: Mus. Contemporary Crafts, NYC; Everson Mus., Syracuse, NY. Commissions: WPA project for mosaic mural (Fisher Girls"), Union H.S., Newport Harbor, CA, 1937 (collab. with Arthur Ames); mural, San Diego Civic Center; ceramic mural (with Arthur Ames), 1956; enamel mural, 1958, Rose Hills Mem. Park, Whittier, CA; ceramic mural (with Arthur Ames), Guarantee S&L, Fresno, CA, 1958; tapestry designed for Garrison Theater, Claremont, CA, 1964; tapestry designed for Fed. Plaza Bldg., Los Angeles, 1968. "

Comentarios: Worked for the WPA in California, designing a mosaic mural in collaboration with her future husband Arthur Ames (with whom she worked on similar public decorative projects throughout her career). Position: profrddot, drawing & design, Scripps Col; professor/chmn., Grad. School of Art, Claremont College, CA, 1940-69.

Fuentes: WW73; Hughes, Artists of California, 214; Trenton, ed. Independent Spirits, 76; Rubinstein, American Women Artists, 264-65