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Intimate Figures: French and American Prints from the Goodman Gift
Gertrude Amelia “Sugar” Goodman, community and philanthropic leader of El Paso, passed away peacefully on January 16, 2016. Born and living until her death on Cincinnati Street, she returned to El Paso after graduating in social work from Mills College in California. One of her first important services to her native city was the establishment of an El Paso Chapter of the Texas Social Welfare Association. Goodman’s generous community spirit earned her many honors including being named in 1977 the First Lady of El Paso by Beta Sigma Phi and Woman of the Year by the El Paso Women’s Political Caucus. More particularly, Goodman was an avid art collector and philanthropist; she promoted and befriended many local artists, served as Vice-President of the first Board of Directors of the El Paso Museum of Art Association, and also began the Association’s Members Guild to support the purchase of EPMA acquisitions.
One of Goodman’s last acts of generosity to this community was to donate almost 200 artworks from her private collection to the El Paso Museum of Art in late 2014. Reflecting Goodman’s own eclectic taste and including some pieces collected by family members, her gift includes regional, international, historical, and contemporary art, and supports the Museum’s collection strengths in American, European, and Mexican art.
Celebrating “Sugar” Goodman’s art, life, and spirit, the exhibition Intimate Figures: French and American Prints from the Goodman Gift highlights just a portion of her recent donation, and presents some masters not previously represented in our collections, such as the American Mary Cassatt and the Frenchman Henri Matisse. Dating from the nineteenth to the twentieth century and portraying idyllic and everyday figures at labor or rest, the varied prints in the exhibition include works by French Impressionists (Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, and Jean-Louis Forain), American social realists (Barbara Latham, Marion Greenwood, John Sloan, and Fritz Eichenberg), and other artists less easily defined, such as the classically-grounded French modernist Aristide Maillol or the American “magic realist” Ivan Albright.
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Gertrude Amelia “Sugar” Goodman, community and philanthropic leader of El Paso, passed away peacefully on January 16, 2016. Born and living until her death on Cincinnati Street, she returned to El Paso after graduating in social work from Mills College in California. One of her first important services to her native city was the establishment of an El Paso Chapter of the Texas Social Welfare Association. Goodman’s generous community spirit earned her many honors including being named in 1977 the First Lady of El Paso by Beta Sigma Phi and Woman of the Year by the El Paso Women’s Political Caucus. More particularly, Goodman was an avid art collector and philanthropist; she promoted and befriended many local artists, served as Vice-President of the first Board of Directors of the El Paso Museum of Art Association, and also began the Association’s Members Guild to support the purchase of EPMA acquisitions.
One of Goodman’s last acts of generosity to this community was to donate almost 200 artworks from her private collection to the El Paso Museum of Art in late 2014. Reflecting Goodman’s own eclectic taste and including some pieces collected by family members, her gift includes regional, international, historical, and contemporary art, and supports the Museum’s collection strengths in American, European, and Mexican art.
Celebrating “Sugar” Goodman’s art, life, and spirit, the exhibition Intimate Figures: French and American Prints from the Goodman Gift highlights just a portion of her recent donation, and presents some masters not previously represented in our collections, such as the American Mary Cassatt and the Frenchman Henri Matisse. Dating from the nineteenth to the twentieth century and portraying idyllic and everyday figures at labor or rest, the varied prints in the exhibition include works by French Impressionists (Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, and Jean-Louis Forain), American social realists (Barbara Latham, Marion Greenwood, John Sloan, and Fritz Eichenberg), and other artists less easily defined, such as the classically-grounded French modernist Aristide Maillol or the American “magic realist” Ivan Albright.
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