Drawings constitute an important and essential element of Sidney Goodman's artistic product. They reveal, perhaps even more than his paintings, the foundations of his personal aesthetic: the interplay between observation, memory and imagination.

Goodman's drawings reveal his choice of those things in his life in which he finds visual excitement and meaningful connections to the past and present. Goodman's vision is grounded in a lifelong urban experience; he is a late 20th century American urban artist. His work, more often than not, expresses the ethos of the city. It rings loud with a common and shared humanity: self, family, love, birth and death, violence and fear.

The Drawings of Sidney Goodman celebrates Goodman's works of art on paper made during the last forty years. Mark Rosenthal, currently the curator of Twentieth CenturyArt at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, will write the introduction. John Yau, art critic and theorist, poet and literature writer will write the main essay.

"Since the early 1960s, Sidney Goodman has been an important role model for artists seeking humanist and/or realist alternatives to the ideals and imperatives of 20th Century abstraction... Goodman can be seen as an art-world version of the novelist Philip Roth, a painterly professor of desire, love, guilt and irony."

Sidney Goodman was born in Philadelphia, 1936. A veteran of the art scene, he has received numerous awards and fellowships, has been exhibited all over the US, and his work is in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum, MOMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among many others.

Awards and Appointments

• 1986 Hazlett Memorial Award for Excellence in the Arts: Painting
• 1987 University of California, Davis, Distinguished Visiting Professor
• 1991 University of Georgia, Athens, Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair
• 1996 Art Institute of Boston, Honorary Degree
• 1998 National Academy of Design, New York, New York, Member
• East Carolina University, Greenville, Visiting Professor
• 1999 Vermont Studio School, Visiting Professor

Permanent Collections

• MOMA, New York, NY
• Mtropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
• Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
• Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
• Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK