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Minetta Good
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1956.18.35.tif

Minetta Good

American, 1895-1946
BiographyMinetta Good (1895-1946) was an American artist born in New York City. Minetta Good is known for landscape, still life and figurative painting, lithography, murals.

She received formal art training from the renowned artists Cecilia Beaux and F. Luis Mora. A native New Yorker, Good spent most of the 1920s and 1930s in California and in Freehold, New Jersey. She was highly talented in landscape, still life and figurative works.
In 1932 her canvas, Idle Quarry, was awarded the prestigious Eloise Egan Prize for best landscape painting by the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. Her mural work includes the oil on canvas mural, titled Retrospection, in the Dresden, Tennessee post office, commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, completed in 1938 and Evangeline for the post office in St. Martinville, Louisiana painted in 1940.

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