With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Henry Sage Goodwin
Architecture/Design, Painting/Drawing
1904 – 2002
- Biography/Description of Work
A 1927 graduate of the Yale School of Architecture, Goodwin opened a practice with Robert Schutz in Hartford a few years later and lasting some thirty years. Commissions for the firm included houses, offices, schools and libraries in the Hartford area. Goodwin’s most notable designs were for the downtown Hartford Public Library which straddled the highway beneath Main Street (1957) and restoration of the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam. After his retirement in 1962, he pursued painting and drawing, exhibiting both statewide and regionally.
- Sources view
- http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/14/classified/paid-notice-deaths-goodwin-henry-sage.html
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