According to Dr. Larry Len Peterson, “Entering a contest held by P. F. Collier and Son, Goodwin submitted Hiawatha and the Pearl Feather. His large oil won first prize and was used as the frontispiece for a volume of American Poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant.”

PROVENANCE
Estate of the artist
Ted and Barbara Goodwin, by descent
Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada, 2019
Private collection, Fort Worth, Texas

LITERATURE
Larry Len Peterson, Philip R. Goodwin: America’s Sporting & Wildlife Artist, Coeur d’Alene Art Auction and Settlers West Galleries, 2001, p. 15, example illustrated