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Richard LaBarre Goodwin (1840-1910)
Hanging Game, 1884 Signed and dated "R. LaBarre Goodwin 1884" lower right Oil on canvas, 48 by 29 inches Born in Albany, New York, Richard LaBarre Goodwin was the son of portrait painter Edwin Wyburn Goodwin (1800-1845). Taking after his father, he painted portraits before turning to the "gibier mort" genre. Most famous for his "cabin door" paintings featuring a variety of hanging game birds, Goodwin worked in a highly realist 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, first moving to Washington D.C. While there he found patronage from California Senators Leland Stanford (who is best known as the founder of Stanford University) and George Hearst (millionaire investor who founded the Hearst publishing empire with his son William Randolph Hearst). He 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. Though smaller, this work relates closely to "Theodore Roosevelt's Cabin," showing a hunter's bounty of a woodcock, a ruffed grouse, and mallards hanging from a door. The artist spared no detail, masterfully crafting every feather on each bird. This Goodwin is one of approximately six "cabin door" paintings known to exist. Private Collection, New York By descent in the family to the current owner ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images:
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