Portrait of Richard and Jalane Davidson
1987 · Charcoal and pastel on cream wove paper
73.6 × 58.4 cm (29 × 23 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Sidney Goodman
American, 1936
Philadelphia, PA, USA
DrawingRealism
Representation
None documented
8
Institutional Exhibitions
14
Works in Collection
22
Assets Indexed
4
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Publications Referenced
90%
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A Museum Menagerie
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975–1976
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The 1960s: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
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Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
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Drawings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1966–1967
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Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
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Sidney Goodman was an American painter and draftsman whose figures emerge from gestural abstraction into a kind of psychological realism. Working primarily in oil and charcoal across the postwar decades, he developed a distinctive approach to the human form that emphasized psychological presence over anatomical precision. His work oscillates between abstraction and representation, creating portraits and figure studies marked by expressive brushwork and tonal depth.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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