Betty Goodwin enjoyed painting and drawing as a child, and was encouraged by her mother to pursue art.
10 Facts About Betty Goodwin
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Betty Goodwin's parents first settled in the United States, but when her father Abraham, who was a tailor, struggled to find work.
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When Betty Goodwin was nine years old, her father suffered a heart attack and passed away.
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Betty Goodwin used the "germ" of ideas that are left after being erased from a work.
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Betty Goodwin launched her career as a painter and printmaker in the late 1940s.
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Betty Goodwin revolutionized the medium of printmaking when, in 1968, she began putting pieces of clothing through a printing press.
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Dissatisfied with her work, Betty Goodwin destroyed most of it and in 1968 she limited herself to drawing.
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Over a period of six years beginning in 1982, Betty Goodwin explored the human form in her drawing series Swimmers, a project which used graphite, oil pastels and charcoal on translucent Mylar.
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Betty Goodwin experienced immense loss when her son Paul died of a drug overdose at age 30.
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Betty Goodwin's work is represented in many public collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the city of Burnaby art collection, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.