Arnold Frederick Goodwin (29 July 1889 – 26 March 1978) was a New Zealand designer, printmaker and puppeteer.
Arnold Goodwin | |
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 Goodwin photographed with the Quoin Club in 1919 (left, in shadow) | |
| Born | Arnold Frederick Goodwin 29 July 1889 Leicester, Leicestershire, England |
| Died | 26 March 1978 (aged 88) Auckland, New Zealand |
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| Years active | c. 1915 – c. 1950 |
Biography
editGoodwin was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, on 29 July 1889 to parents George and Florence Goodwin.[1] He studied at the Leicester School of Art and the Académie Julian,[2][3] and briefly worked in New York[4] before immigrating to New Zealand, where he settled in Auckland in 1913. He worked as a printer for Chandler & Co and The New Zealand Herald, before starting his own advertising company—Carlton Studio, Designers and Illustrators.[5] In 1916, with his friend Thomas Gulliver, he founded the Quoin Club to promote graphic and print art in Auckland.[6]
Later in life, Goodwin was director of design and applied art at the Elam School of Fine Arts, and was involved with the Auckland Little Theatre Society,[2] where he designed sets and performed as an actor and marionette puppeteer.[7] It has been said that "puppetry in New Zealand begins and ends with one man: Arnold Goodwin", and that "his touring marionette productions of Shakespearean plays in the 1940s were widely acclaimed as being in world class".[7]
Goodwin died in Auckland on 26 March 1978, at the age of 88.[1][8]
Notes
edit- ^ a b "Death search: registration number 1978/45587". Births, deaths & marriages online. Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
- ^ a b Vangioni 2023.
- ^ Ross 2006, p. 24.
- ^ Ross 2006, pp. 29–30.
- ^ "Carlton Studio". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. 59, no. 18029. 2 March 1922. p. 8.
- ^ Ross 2006, p. 21.
- ^ a b "Puppet play pleases". The Press. 8 March 1976. p. 16. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
- ^ "Record for Arnold Frederick Goodwin". Auckland Council. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
References
edit- Vangioni, Peter (2023), Ink on Paper: Aotearoa New Zealand printmakers of the modern era (PDF), Christchurch: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, p. 40, ISBN 9781877375774, retrieved 18 May 2024
- Ross, Gail Macdonald (2006). New Zealand Prints 1900-1950: An unseen heritage (PhD thesis). University of Canterbury. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
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