Drawing
Acrylic on canvas
38 1/2 x 30 1/2“

Sidney Goodman (1936–2013) was born and died in Philadelphia. He was one of the preeminent contemporary American painters and draftsmen exploring the still-fertile ground of art based on the human form. For over three decades, the style that he forged out of direct observation, creative imagination and prolonged study of European and American masters has demonstrated the continuing vitality of figurative art. But Goodman’s embrace of metaphor and the metaphysical has set his brand of figuration markedly apart from that of other major artists of his generation, including Philip Pearlstein, Alfred Leslie and Alex Katz.