About Robert Arthur Goodnough

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    "Robert Goodnough, Painter Who Eluded Categories, Dies at 92", By William Grimes. New York Times ( October 12, 2010)

    Robert Goodnough, a painter whose stylistic evolution from vibrant, Cubist-inspired abstractions to Color Field canvases made him one of the least definable members of the second-generation Abstract Expressionists, died on Oct. 2 in White Plains. He was 92 and lived in Thornwood, N.Y.

    The cause was complications of pneumonia, said Eric Brown, a partner at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery.

    In a career that lasted more than half a century, Mr. Goodnough (pronounced GOOD-now) eluded the neat categories that art critics relied on to codify the work of the Abstract Expressionists. He moved among ...

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