Lloyd Goodrich papers
name: label: Creator
content: Goodrich, Lloyd, 1897-1987
label: Names
content: American Art Research Council
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content: American Federation of Arts
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content: Artist Tenants Association (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Artists Equity Association
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content: Association of Art Museum Directors
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content: National Council on the Arts and Government
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content: Whitney Museum of American Art
label: Names
content: Dows, Olin, 1904-1981
label: Names
content: Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916
label: Names
content: Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973
label: Names
content: Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910
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content: Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953
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content: Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954
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content: Miller, Kenneth Hayes, 1876-1952
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content: Newman, Elias, 1903-
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content: Rich, Daniel Catton, 1904-1976
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content: Ryder, Albert Pinkham, 1847-1917
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content: Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Museum administrators -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Art, American
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content: Museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Lloyd Goodrich papers were given to the Archives of American Art in several different acquisitions. Lloyd Goodrich first donated material in 1983. David Goodrich, Lloyd Goodrich's son, gave more material between 1988 and 2007 while additional papers were lent for microfilming by William I. Homer in 1990.  Finally, the Whitney Museum of American Art donated papers in 1996, and Polly Thistlethwaite gave further material in 2015.
creator: label: Creator
content: Goodrich, Lloyd, 1897-1987
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content: Lloyd Goodrich papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of art historian, writer, and museum administrator Lloyd Goodrich measure 35.7 linear feet and date from 1884 to 1987 with the bulk of the material dating from 1927 to 1987.  Materials include biographical material, extensive correspondence, writings and research files, organization and committee files, exhibition files, printed material, a scrapbook, and photographic material.  The collection is particularly rich in research files on Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and Reginald Marsh, as well as correspondence with additional notable artists and art figures.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lloyd Goodrich (1897-1987) was a prominent and influential art historian, writer, and director of the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City, New York, from 1958-1968.  

Lloyd Goodrich was born in Nutley, New Jersey in 1897. He studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League from 1913-1915 and also took courses at the National Academy of Design. Rather than pursue a career as an artist, however, he decided that his real talent was writing about art.  He began his long and prolific writing career in 1923-24 and married Edith Havens in 1924.  Inspired by the work and writings of European art scholars and a desire to address the need for a body of scholarship on American Art, Goodrich began to research and write about American artists Kenneth Hayes Miller, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Eakins.

Goodrich's first article on Winslow Homer was published in 1924 by The Arts, a magazine financed by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and edited by Forbes Watson, who soon hired Goodrich as associate editor.  By 1929, Goodrich was also working as assistant art critic for the New York Times while continuing work at The Arts as contributing editor.  One year later, The Arts commissioned Goodrich to write a book on Kenneth Hayes Miller.  And, around the same time Goodrich became interested in Thomas Eakins, and with the encouragement and financial support from his boyhood friend, artist Reginald Marsh, he began work on a monograph about Eakins. 

In 1930, Goodrich joined the staff of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's new American art museum in New York City, the Whitney Museum of American Art.  The museum provided him with the funds he needed to research and complete his book on Thomas Eakins, which he achieved in 1933.  In 1935, he became curator of the museum, and associate director in 1948.  He served as director from 1958-1968.  The bequest of the Edward Hopper collection to the Whitney was the result of Goodrich's reputation as a scholar of Edward Hopper.  After retiring, Goodrich continued his association with the Whitney as advisory director and director emeritus.

Goodrich was instrumental in starting the American Art Research Council in 1942, a group of museums devoted to collecting scholarly records about American art.  He sat on the advisory panels for the New York State Council on the Arts and the Fine Arts Advisory Committee to the White House. In 1933, he was in charge of the New York regional office of the Public Works of Art Project.  He also served as chairman of the National Council on the Arts and Government from 1948 to 1954 and was a major force in the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities.  He was a member of the Artists Equity Association, Artist Tenants Association, and numerous other arts organizations and a strong advocate for the promotion and support of American art and artists.   

Throughout his long and distinguished career as a writer and museum administrator, Lloyd Goodrich worked to build a body of scholarship related to the history of American art and artists.  He published several important monographs, including works on Thomas Eakins, Edward Hopper, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Winslow Homer, and Reginald Marsh, and organized major exhibitions about these and many other artists during his 57-year association with the Whitney Museum of American Art. At the time of his death, Goodrich was considered a preeminent figure in the American art world, and one of the foremost authorities on Eakins, Ryder, and Homer, artists on which he kept extensive research files throughout his life. 

Lloyd Goodrich died March 27, 1987.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- New York (State)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 35.7 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1884-1987
label: Date
content: bulk 1927-1987
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.goodlloy
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Photographs
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content: Transcripts
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content: Interviews
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content: Scrapbooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as 8 series.

Series 1: Biographical Materials, 1946-1984 (Boxes 1; 0.4 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1920-1987 (Boxes 1-3; 1.8 linear feet)

Series 3: Writings and Research Files, 1884-1987 (Boxes 3-17, 38; 14.5 linear feet)

Series 4: Organization and Committee files, 1933-1982 (Boxes 17-31, 37; 14.5 linear feet)

Series 5: Exhibition Files, 1944-1986 (Boxes 31-32; 0.6 linear feet)

Series 6: Printed Material, circa 1920s-1979 (Boxes 32-33; 0.8 linear feet)

Series 7: Scrapbook, 1952-1959 (Box 33; 2 folders)

Series 8: Photographic Materials, circa 1910-1987 (Boxes 33-37; 3.1 linear feet)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was minimally processed and a finding aid created by Jayna Josefson in 2015-2016 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund.  The Archives of American Art has implemented minimal processing tactics when possible in order to increase information about and access to more of our collections.  Minimal processing included arrangement to the series, subseries and folder levels.  Generally, items within folders were simply verified with folder titles, but not arranged further.  The collection was rehoused in archival containers and folders, but not all staples and clips were removed.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Material lent for microfilming is available on 35mm microfilm reel 4468 at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
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content: Transcripts
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content: Interviews
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content: Scrapbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of art historian, writer, and museum administrator Lloyd Goodrich measure 35.7 linear feet and date from 1884 to 1987 with the bulk of the material dating from 1927 to 1987.  Materials include biographical material, extensive correspondence, writings and research files, organization and committee files, exhibition files, printed material, a scrapbook, and photographic material.  The collection is particularly rich in research files on Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and Reginald Marsh, as well as correspondence with additional notable artists and art figures. 

Scattered biographical materials include biographical sketches, an interview transcript, personal business records, documents relating to Goodrich's service on art juries, and awards and honors. 

Correspondence is with friends, family, artists, museums, collectors, galleries, and arts organizations.  Correspondents include The Arts Magazine, Whitney Museum of Art, Olin Dows, Philip Evergood, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald Marsh, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Elias Newman, Daniel Catton Rich, and Raphael Soyer among many others.  Research related correspondence arranged here concerns work on a catalogue raisonné of Winslow Homer.  This material was originally arranged in the correspondence files by Goodrich prior to the later donation that included additional research files on Homer found in Series 3.  There are also condolence letters from notable figures in American art.    

Writings and research files include major writings, such as books and articles, and book reviews, essays, exhibition text, catalog entries, and lectures.  In addition to the writings, Goodrich's research files for the writings are arranged here and include research, notes, correspondence, photographs, illustrations, printed materials, and bibliographies. There are also book agreements. There are extensive files for Goodrich's books on Winslow Homer (see also correspondence in Series 2) and Reginald Marsh; articles, catalog entries, and other writings on Winslow Homer, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Kuniyoshi,  Reginald Marsh, and American art in general; lectures and talks; research files on other artists, and notes and notebooks. 

Organization and committee files document Goodrich's service on boards, commissions, committees, organizations, and associations, such as the American Federation of Arts, the Association of Art Museum Directors, the Carnegie Study in American Art, the National Council on the Arts and Government, American Art Research Council, Artists Equity Association, Artist Tenants Association, the selection committee of the American National Exhibition (1959), and others are found within organization and committee files.  Agendas, correspondence, meeting minutes, and printed material are found within the files. 

Exhibition files are found only for several Winslow Homer shows.  Printed materials include clippings, publicity materials, and printed copies of his writings. Photographic material includes scattered photographs of Goodrich and others, and extensive negatives of works of art, likely by Homer. Also found are x-rays of paintings by Ralph Blakelock.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Also found in the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Lloyd Goodrich, 1962-1963 by Harlan Phillips for the Archives of American Art.  

Additional Lloyd Goodrich papers are located at the Whitney Museum of American Art Archives, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives.
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming (reel 4468) including a photocopy of the manuscript "Albert Pinkham Ryder: The Man and His Art," Goodrich's contribution to the book "Albert Pinkham Ryder: Painter of Dreams" co-authored with William I. Homer. Loaned materials were returned to the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.