Minetta Good

Minetta Good studied at Art Students League of New York and New York School of Applied Design for Women. Places of work recorded in the authority are New Jersey. Employment is recorded with Works Progress Administration. Work by Minetta Good is recorded in the collections of Index of American Design, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Museum of American History and Smithsonian Institution.

• Name — Minetta Good • Other Names — Minnetta Good • Born — 1895 • Birthplace — New York City, New York, U.S. • Died — 1946 • Place of death — New York City, New York, U.S. • Education — Cooper Union, New York School of Applied Design for Women, Art Students League of New York • Occupation — Artist • Illustration — Good's lithograph Toddy Glass, 1935/1942, from the collection of the National Gallery of Art

Born in 1895 in New York City. Good attended Cooper Union and New York School of Applied Design for Women. Good studied at the Art Students League of New York with F. Luis Mora, and Robert Henri and received training from Cecilia Beaux. For much of the 1920s and 1930s Good lived in Califon and Freehold, New Jersey. She won many prizes through the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, including the 1932 Eloise Egan Prize for best landscape painting. She was one of the founders of the Salons of America, and exhibited widely throughout the United States. During the Great Depression she produced work for the Federal Art Project, including the Index of American Design. She created two murals for post offices in Dresden, Tennessee, and St. Martinville, Louisiana, for the Section of Painting and Sculpture. The Dresden mural, "Retrospection" (1938) depicts early days of the county and is still located in this original post office location. • Illustration — Minetta Good, Main Street, c. 1935-40, lithograph, Metropolitan Museum of Art Good created five murals at St. Martinsville, and one was relocated to a new post office location, the original location feature four circular ceiling light decorations in the lobby, depicting the magnolia, the azalea, the crawfish and the pelican painted in oils on canvas. At the St. Martinsville post office there was a larger painting of Evangeline, seated under an Evangeline Oak tree along the Bayou Teche with colorful water hyacinths and in the background is the Catholic church. Her work may be found in the National Gallery of Art.