Philip R. Goodwin | |
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Born |
Philip Russell Goodwin September 16, 1881 Norwich, Connecticut, United States |
Died | December 14, 1935 Mamaroneck, New York, United States |
(aged 54)
Nationality | American |
Education | Rhode Island School of Design, the Art Students League in New York City, and the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry, Howard Pyle at the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art |
Known for | Painting, Illustration |
Notable work | The Call of the Wild, "African Game Trails", the Horse & Rider Trademark of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, American Museum of Natural History, the Brandywine River Museum, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, the Charles M. Russell Museum, the Glenbow Museum, the Cowboy Hall of Fame, the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the Gilcrease Museum and many other collections |
Movement | Impressionism, Wildlife, Brandywine School |
Philip R. Goodwin (September 16, 1881 – December 14, 1935) was an American painter and illustrator who specialized in depictions of wildlife, the outdoors, fishing, hunting and the Old American West. He provided illustrations for numerous books and magazines, as well as for commercial items, such as posters, advertisements and calendars. He is perhaps best known for illustrating Jack London's The Call of the Wild and for providing the cover art for many issues of Outdoor Recreation / Outdoor Life Magazine during the 1920s and early 1930s. He is also the artist who designed the Horse & Rider Trademark of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Goodwin was a very private person and did not seek publicity, so not much was known about his private life during his lifetime. Most of what is known comes from letters held at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.
Goodwin was born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1881. At age 11, he sold his first illustrated story to Collier's Magazine. Goodwin studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Art Students League in New York City, and the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now Drexel University) in Philadelphia under the well known Howard Pyle. He later followed Pyle when he opened his own Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. N.C. Wyeth, Thornton Oakley and Frank Schoonover were contemporaries of Goodwin who also studied under Pyle at that time.