Maude Goodman

Maude Goodman
Born	1860 Manchester
Died	1938
Nationality	British

Maude Goodman (1860–1938) was a British painter.

Goodman was born in Manchester but moved to London where she became a pupil of Edward Poynter.^[1] She married Arthur Scanes in 1882 but continued to use her maiden name. She exhibited 54 works during the years 1874-1901 at the Royal Academy.^[2] She also showed works at the Chicago World Exposition in 1893.^[3]

Her painting Hush was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.^[4]

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  Hush

She was mentioned by Dorothy L. Sayers in The Wimsey Papers VI as an overly-cloying painter of idealised children in Arcadian settings; the writer reported that the boys in her nursery of the 1890s took a gift Goodman out of its frame and used it as a pea-shooting target. ^[5]

References

1. Maude Goodman in the RKD
2. Maude Goodman in The Dictionary of British Women Artists, by Sara Gray, 2009
3. 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exposition
4. Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
5. The Spectator 21 December 1939, Pg. 10

• Maude Goodman on artnet