Minetta Good

{{Infobox person

| name = Minetta Good

| alt = Minetta Good

| other_names = Minnetta Good

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth year|1895}}

| birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.

| death_date = {{death year and age|1946|1895}}

| death_place = New York City, New York, U.S.

| education = Cooper Union,
New York School of Applied Design for Women,
Art Students League of New York

| occupation = Artist

}}

Image:Minetta Good, Toddy Glass, 1935-1942, NGA 23000.jpg]]

Minetta Good, also known as Minnetta Good (1895–1946), was an American painter and printmaker who was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Her work often depicted farm scenes, family life, and/or transportation.

Biography

Born in 1895 in New York City.{{Cite book|last1=Adams|first1=Katherine H.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B2tECwAAQBAJ|title=Women, Art and the New Deal|last2=Keene|first2=Michael L.|publisher=McFarland|year=2015|isbn=9781476662978|pages=80}} Good attended Cooper Union and New York School of Applied Design for Women.{{Cite book|last=Hull|first=Howard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PdwlpAFp-4cC|title=Tennessee Post Office Murals|publisher=The Overmountain Press|year=1996|isbn=9781570720307|pages=58–62}} Good studied at the Art Students League of New York with F. Luis Mora, and Robert Henri and received training from Cecilia Beaux.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0uc3AQAAIAAJ|title=New Deal art: WPA works at the University of Kentucky, August 25--October 27, 1985|publisher=University of Kentucky Art Museum|others=Harriet W. Fowler, Sophia Wallace|year=1985|type=Exhibition publication}}

For much of the 1920s and 1930s Good lived in Califon and Freehold, New Jersey. She won many prizes through the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, including the 1932 Eloise Egan Prize for best landscape painting. She was one of the founders of the Salons of America, and exhibited widely throughout the United States.

During the Great Depression she produced work for the Federal Art Project, including the Index of American Design. She created two murals for post offices in Dresden, Tennessee, and St. Martinville, Louisiana, for the Section of Painting and Sculpture.{{cite web|url=https://livingnewdeal.org/artists/minetta-good/|title=Minetta Good|website=Living New Deal|publisher=University of California, Berkeley|access-date=2020-04-17}} The Dresden mural, "Retrospection" (1938) depicts early days of the county and is still located in this original post office location.

File:Minetta Good - Main Street, c. 1935–40.jpg]]

Good created five murals at St. Martinsville, and one was relocated to a new post office location, the original location feature four circular ceiling light decorations in the lobby, depicting the magnolia, the azalea, the crawfish and the pelican painted in oils on canvas.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/473722758/|title=Installation of five mural decorations, portraying subjects of interest typical of this Southwest Louisiana, has been completed in the St. Martinville post office by Miss Minnetta Good, artist of the Section of Fine Arts, Public Buildings Administration, Washington, D. C.|date=December 13, 1940|website=Newspapers.com|publisher=Teche News|language=en|access-date=2020-04-18}} At the St. Martinsville post office there was a larger painting of Evangeline, seated under an Evangeline Oak tree along the Bayou Teche with colorful water hyacinths and in the background is the Catholic church.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/21/picture-essay-america-1930s-post-office-murals|title=Searching for America's 1930s post office murals - a photo essay|author=Justin Hamel|website= The Guardian|date=21 August 2020|access-date=21 August 2020}} Her work may be found in the National Gallery of Art.{{Cite web |title=Minnetta Good |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.7575.html}}

Death and legacy

Good died in 1946, at age 51 in New York City, New York.{{Cite web|title=Minnetta Good|url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=1861|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|language=en|access-date=2017-08-16}}

Good's art work is found in many public museum collections including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{Cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/374765|title=Minnetta Good|website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum|access-date=2017-08-16}} National Gallery of Art,{{Cite web|url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.7575.html|title=Collection: Minnetta Good|website=National Gallery of Art (NGA)|access-date=2020-04-18}} Smithsonian American Art Museum.{{Cite web|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/minnetta-good-1861|title=Artists: Minnetta Good|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-18}} Art Institute of Chicago,{{cite web|url=http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/127297?search_no=5&index=0|title=Victoriana - The Art Institute of Chicago|access-date=27 February 2017}} Illinois State Museum,{{cite web|url=http://www.museum.state.il.us/ismdepts/art/WPA/gallery.html?RollID=roll01&FrameID=Good_MainStreet|title=WPA Art Collection -- Illinois State Museum|access-date=27 February 2017}} Iowa State University Museums,{{Cite web|url=http://umsm003.its.iastate.edu/view/objects/aslist/People@227/0/title-asc?t:state:flow=b4b8c51c-6a5d-4a5b-aa1f-c3449c9c9b31|title=Collection Minnetta Good|website=Iowa State Collections - Iowa State University|access-date=2020-04-18}} University of Massachusetts Amherst Gallery,{{Cite web|url=https://fac.umass.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=WPA|title=WPA Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection|date=1992|website=fac.umass.edu|access-date=2020-04-18}} Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,{{Cite web|url=https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection-artist/minnetta-good|title=Museum Collection: MINNETTA GOOD|website=PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-18}} Newark Museum,{{cite web|url=http://www.newarkmuseumedu.org/learningcenter/image-gallery/country-auction-1935|title=At the Country Auction, 1935 - Newark Museum|access-date=27 February 2017}} University of Wyoming Art Museum,{{Cite web|url=http://www.uwyo.edu/artmuseum/files/documents/ed-ciriculum-regionalism.pdf|title=American Regionalism: Selections from the Art Museum Collection, University of Wyoming Art Museum 2011 Educational Packet|date=December 23, 2012|website=University of Wyoming Art Museum|access-date=2020-04-17}} David Owsley Museum of Art Ball State University,{{cite web|url=http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/MuseumBSU/id/3652|title=Minetta Good :: David Owsley Museum of Art Collection|access-date=27 February 2017}} among others.