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Philip R. Goodwin (1881 – 1935)
In a Tight Corner
oil on canvas laid on board
24 × 33 inches
signed lower right

According to Larry Len Peterson in Philip R. Goodwin: America’s Sporting & Wildlife Artist, “…Goodwin should be distinguished by his paintings of bears. More than other animals, Goodwin relished painting the bear–sometimes using a fierce threatening posture, or at the mercy of a hunter’s Winchester, or perhaps just looming in forest shadows. Whatever the scenario, Goodwin loved bears. As years rolled by, he became more concerned with wildlife conservation and chose to depict the mischievous and playful nature of his characters. Adopting a theme from Russell’s paintings and bronzes, Goodwin depicted bears and cubs investigating campsites, where they usually surprised their human counterparts. While Goodwin was completely at ease painting other wildlife–moose, antelope, elk, caribou, mountain goat, and big horn sheep–it remained the bear that he and his patrons most coveted.”

LITERATURE
Larry Len Peterson, Philip R. Goodwin: America’s Sporting & Wildlife Artist (Hayden, ID: The Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, 2001), page 293, illustrated print

193

Philip R. Goodwin

1881 – 1935

In a Tight Corner
oil on canvas laid on board
24 × 33 inches
signed lower right
Sold at Auction: $105,300
Condition ReportSurface condition excellent. Several specks of inpainting above mountain in upper right corner and small spot lower left corner, to the right of tin can. Multiple specks of inpainting on pants as well as three spots on left boot of the figure in red shirt. Several hairline cracks in bear. Painting has been mounted to masonite.

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