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GOODWIN, Betty

Born
Montreal, Quebec, 1923
Died
Montreal, Quebec, 2008
Biography synopsis
Known for her haunting evocations of the human body in drawings and prints, Betty Goodwin was one of Canada's most celebrated artists, garnering praise both here and abroad. After studying design at Valentine’s Commercial School of Art in Montreal, she took a printmaking course from Yves Gaucher at Sir George Williams (now Concordia) University. She began her career as a painter and printmaker in the late 1940s, choosing landscapes and still lifes as her subject matter. Increasingly discontented with her work, she destroyed most of it in 1968 and made the decision to limit herself to drawing and etching. The following year she took her art a step further by putting a pair of gloves directly through an etching press; clothing and textiles continued to make regular appearances in her work. Goodwin knew a great deal of tragedy in her family life: her father, an immigrant to Canada from Romania, died when she was only nine, and she lost her only son (with husband, Martin Goodwin) to a drug overdose in 1976. By contrast, her artistic career continued to flourish: she showed her work at the Venice Biennale in 1995 and won numerous accolades over the years, including the Lynch-Staunton Award of Distinction (1983), the Banff Centre National Award for Visual Arts (1984), the Paul-Émile Borduas Prize (1986), the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1988), the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (1995), the Harold Town Prize for drawing (1998), the Governor General's Award in Visual Arts (2003), the Order of Canada (2003) and honorary doctorates from schools across Canada (Université de Montréal, The University of Guelph, and The University of Waterloo, among others). Her work can be found in several collections in Canada, including 200 pieces at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Media used
Drawing
Installation
Mixed media
Painting
Printmaking
Sculpture
Education
Valentine Commercial School of Art
Sir George Williams University (under Yves Gaucher)
File & Archive locations
Archives de la Galerie René Blouin, QC
Jack Shainman Gallery Archives, NY
Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
Artexte Information Centre, QC - Documentation Centre
Hamilton Public Library, ON - Local History and Archives Department
London Public Library, ON
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, QC - Media Centre
National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
Toronto Reference Library, ON
University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
University of Calgary Library, AB
Vancouver Art Gallery, BC - Library
Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, QC
Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Smithsonian Institution, DC - Archives of American Art
Museum of Modern Art, NY
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Library, FL
BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Writings by
Camlot, Jason, and Betty Goodwin, illus. Lines crossed out. Montreal: Delirium Press, 2005
Desautels, Denise, and Betty Goodwin, illus. Blacks words. Paris: Collectif Génération, 1990
Goodwin, Betty. Betty Goodwin. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1993
Goodwin, Betty. Notes about distorted and other events. Paris: Fin, 2000
Lapointe, Paul-Marie, and Betty Goodwin, illus. Tombeau de René Crevel [with original etchings by Betty Goodwin]. L'Obsidienne, 1979

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