Curriculum Materials: Amazing Animals in
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Philip R. Goodwin
Born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1881, Philip Russell Goodwin began sketching and painting as a child, and made his first saleóan illustrated storyóto Collier's when he was 11. He studied at both the Rhode Island School of Design and the Art Students League in New York City, as well as with Howard Pyle at Pyle's Brandywine School at Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Known as the Father of American illustration, Pyle inspired an entire generation of illustrators through his work and his teaching. The Wyeth family continues this tradition to the present time.
By 1904, Goodwin had his own studio in New York City and was working on commercial assignments, producing illustrations for McClure's Magazine, Collier's, and Everybody's Magazine, as well as covers for Saturday Evening Post. His subjects always included wildlife, and he specialized in painting action-filled hunting scenes for sporting goods calendars. He also painted animals for circus posters and advertisements for various prominent companies, including the Cream of Wheat Company. Goodwin illustrated a number of books about animals and is best known for the illustrations he created for the early editions of Jack London's Call of the Wild and Theodore Roosevelt's African Game Trails. Working from subjects he observed both in the zoo and in the wild, he also made wax sculptures of animals, which were then cast in bronze.
A passionate outdoorsman and a skilled horseman, Goodwin enjoyed spending time in wilderness areas such as the Maine woods, the Colorado Rockies, remote areas of Canada, and the Montana mountainside lodge of his close friends, the artist Charles Russell and his wife Nancy.
Goodwin died at age 54, having earned little recognition by art circles. In recent decades, however, he has been rediscovered by collectors of wildlife, hunting, and fishing scenes.
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