Park Street Church in Winter
Signed lower right: A C GOODWIN
Description
Arthur Charles Goodwin earned the moniker ‘Sloppy Weather Goodwin’ for his tendency to paint in all seasons, especially Boston’s bone-chilling winters. Park Street Church in Winter depicts a view he painted many times over his career, perhaps due to the intriguing juxtaposition of the spire’s strong verticality with the series of diagonals comprising the street and nearby buildings as they converge in the distance. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has a similar painting by Goodwin in their permanent collection, one bequeathed by John Spaulding in 1948.
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Condition
Very good. The painting was previously wax-lined and was kept on this lining as it is stable, and it was recently cleaned. There is minor old in-paint scattered along the edges from frame rub, scattered very thin lines of in-paint in the foreground snow, mostly under the carriage and the figures at right, a few dots in the right sky, a cluster of thin lines in the church roof, and a circular pattern of thin in-painted lines around the two carriages at center.
